rests are too open to arbitrary application e.g. prevention of damage to property or loss of life. Further, due process of accountability and prior review must be considered in order to avoid abuse/unfettered interception and rerouting of private communication. 40 Interception capability of May compromise security/privacy of service provider: mandates a individual communication and may be service to use equipment prone to abuse as the section is open capable of being intercepted ended for easy routing and seems and interpretation monitoring as prescribed on open to continuous transmission/monitoring of communication 55 Criminalises aiding, abetting, This could be used against persons counselling, inciting or procurement, who come into contact with vital solicitation of information e.g. journalists and their another person to commit or confidential sources; a journalist could conspiring to commit any be offence under the Act considered to be aiding and abetting/conspiring when they deal with a source who has information that is considered an offense under the Act regardless of public interest nature of the information. 59 Offenses of obscene matters Obscenity or things is subject to moral including interpretation and is thus prone to possession of any one or arbitrary application as has been the more obscene, drawings, case previously17. Journalist, in the paintings, pictures, images, course of their duty, are likely to posters, emblems, possess or inadvertently come into photographs, videos or any contact with obscene material or be 17 In 2009, journalist Chansa Kabwe was arrested for alleged circulation of obscene material after she sent pictures of a mother giving birth outside the University teaching Hospital to politicians who included then VicePresident, George Kunda. Ms Kabwela was eventually acquitted. See https://cpj.org/2009/11/zambian-editoracquitted-in-hospital-obscenity-cas/ 25