Panama's Government Would Regulate Internet and Cell Phone Use
(Panama-Guide) By Ereida Prieto-Barreiro for the Panama America - Cellular phone calls, the use of email and access to the Internet will no longer be private. The government believes these activities are of "public and social interest" and they intend to regulate. Draft Law 019-09 will be discussed today during the meeting of the Executive Cabinet for approval and subsequent delivery to the National Assembly, states that "concession companies in mobile telephony, fixed communications networks and the like, which provide service in the national territory or from it are required to keep a record of data from their customers."