New Delhi: Taking a serious note of allegations of tapping of phones of politicians, senior BJP leader LK Advani has demanded enactment of a new legislation to protect citizens` privacy.
It is a "shocking report describing how the Government of India has been making use of the latest phone tapping technology to prepare records of telephonic conversations of prominent political leaders including Chief Ministers like Nitish Kumar, Union Ministers like Sharad Pawar, communist leaders like Prakash Karat and the Congress party`s own office bearers like its General Secretary, Digvijay Singh," he said.
Commenting on the report on phone tapping published in Outlook magazine, Advani, in his blog titled `Is the Emergency back`, said that the "outdated" Telephone Act should be scrapped and demanded that a new legislation be enacted to protect citizens` privacy.
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