The head of the Competition Authority, Denar Biba, instead of talking about prices rising as if in a closed market or the lack of decisions against monopolies, decided to propose something "more efficient": permission to wiretap phones.
In the Economy Committee, Biba said in all seriousness that in some EU countries — such as Poland, Italy or Germany — authorities can access mobile phones "in three seconds" and extract all the data, because "privacy is not as important as the rule of law."
To support his thesis, he took the example of SPAK and their "successes with Sky and EncroChat," adding that even the Competition Authority would do "scrupulously" if it could open businesses' cell phones — even their photos, just in case.
So, while hospitals, phone companies, and big businesses set prices as if we were in a feudal market, the Competition Authority seeks to become… the SPAK of phones.
Now it remains to be seen who will protect consumers — from prices, or from competition that seeks to “review” our photo galleries.
