“We should be given the benefit of the doubt,” said Orlando Jorge Mera, president of the Dominican Telephone Institute (Indotel), referring to new efforts to reduce telephone espionage in the DR. He said his department has the legal capability to fight it. “Now we want the citizens to exercise their rights and put them to test,” he said. While acknowledging that fighting this crime will take time, he says his department received its first case days ago. Phone taping, especially during political election time, is widespread. Digital phones are said to be less vulnerable to the practice.
