THE NATIONAL SIGNALS BEREAU BILL AND THE GHANAIAN’S CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHT TO BE LEFT ALONE.
INTRODUCTION There is no doubt that “Cyberspace creates new potentials for good and evil, for creative expression and criminal exploitation” but the issue is, at what point can a government say cyberspace has become a threat to a country’s national security for the citizens to have zero right to privacy. This is to raise concerns with the National Signals Bureau (NSB) Bill that may have been passed by Parliament as an Act by the time I finish writing this article. Clause 3 of the National Signals Bureau (NSB) Bill empowers the NSB to amongst others monitor, collect, analyse and disseminate information from cyberspace, electronic media to counter threats to security so as to prevent and deter the commission of a serious crime in the country (emphasis mine). On the face of it, this may sound good but is a double edged sword that would be an infringement of our Constitutional right to be left alone (Right to Privacy- Article18(2) of the 1992 Constitution of Ghana)