The Centre for Democracy and Human Rights (CDD) submitted, today, Thursday, 29 January, a petition to the Ombudsman of the Republic of Mozambique, requesting the initiation of a successive abstract review of the constitutionality of the Telecommunications Traffic Control Regulation, approved by Decree No. 48/2025 of 16 December.
The Regulation establishes a system of mass and indiscriminate surveillance of electronic communications by granting excessive powers to the Regulatory Authority — the National Institute of Communications of Mozambique (INCM) — to monitor traffic, collect personal data and metadata, administratively suspend communications, and directly intervene in telecommunications networks, without effective judicial oversight and without a legal basis approved by the Assembly of the Republic.
