Paul Low, a Malaysian minister in the department assigned to fight graft, stated that the government would soon utilize phone tapping and would employ internet monitoring devices. The move was said to help eradicate corporate and government corruption, an enormous problem that costs Malaysia around USD9 billion per year. The report came from Bloomberg's Kuala Lumpur source.
Low reportedly also said that the country is currently in early-stage discussions regarding the matter. However, he refused to give details about the government's plan. It was also unclear if the administration has already been spying on it citizens or not.
Analysts had said that the only apparent factor is the fact that spying outrage would continue to spark debate about how spying devices must be constrained. The spying scandal started when Edward Snowden revealed that the US National Security Agency's Prism project was used for a widespread electronic snooping. Forrester Research estimated that the US cloud computing industry would lose as much as USD180 billion due to the discovery and uproar over purposes of the NSA's project.
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