The IS has used the hacking program for surveillance, a violation of the basic rights of the people, he held.

It is a threat to democracy to collect information about people at will and to use it as a means for controlling them, he noted, adding the illegal surveillance by the IS prevents people from criticizing those in power.

The surveillance by the power organs meets the interests of specified classes only and brings harms to the people, he stressed.

The regime does not practice any control over the gathering of information about individuals, he said, urging the regime to bring down the surveillance-ridden society.