THE Interception of Communications Bill gives police officers the power to obtain warrants to “secretly” enter into homes and businesses in order to seize communications and install interception devices within them, attorney Fred Smith, QC, said yesterday as he continued to campaign for parliamentarians to indefinitely postpone debate on the bill until public consultation takes place.

Although secret interception of communications and installing of such devices by police, a hallmark of spy movies and TV shows, are allowed in countries around the world, Mr Smith said this is new for The Bahamas. He said Bahamians have not been given a chance to digest how much of “a revolutionary change to the landscape of privacy in The Bahamas” such activity represents...

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