PARIS - France's government is resorting increasingly to phone taps, and pays ever less heed to its advice, the National Commission for Control of Intercepts and Security (CNCIS) said yesterday.
The CNCIS said in its annual report that for the first time in five years, it had authorised the government this year to increase the number of phonelines which can be tapped simultaneously from 1,180 to 1,540.