The Times of India reports on recommendations issued by a government-appointed panel tasked with identifying privacy issues and preparing a report to facilitate the proposed Privacy Act. Led by former Delhi High Court Chief Justice A P Shah, the group laid out guidelines on telephone tapping and other forms of communications surveillance as well as recommendations to set up national and regional privacy regulators. The group identified differences between existing laws that allow government surveillance, stating, “these differences have created an unclear regulatory regime that is inconsistent, non-transparent and prone to misuse and does not provide remedy or compensation to aggrieved individuals.”
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