New Delhi: The third petition has been filed in the country's largest court on the Pegasus case. Senior journalists N Ram and Shashi Kumar have demanded an inquiry headed by a sitting or former judge of the apex court. There has also been a demand from the Central Government to seek clarifications on the issue. Earlier, advocate ML Sharma and CPM Rajya Sabha MP John Brittas have also filed petitions.

In this age of smartphones, the law is lagging far behind in protecting private conversations or information. After the change in the Indian Telegraph Act, 1885 in 2007, there were rules on phone tapping. It can lead to phone tapping at high-level permission in cases of protecting the country or overseeing serious crime. A phone can be tapped for up to 60 days after permission from the home secretary-level in a state. It can be continued for a maximum of 180 days. The law does not say anything separately about the theft of information in all types of apps available in smartphones, leakage of conversations through calls or messages.

The Information Technology Act, 2000 and related rules talk about the protection of Internet data. But the Data Protection Authority of India has not yet been constituted to look into such cases. In 2018, a commission led by former Supreme Court Judge BN Srikrishna submitted a recommendation on data security to the government. Based on this, the government introduced the Personal Data Protection Bill, 2019 in Parliament to protect personal data. Under this, the Data Protection Authority is to be constituted. But the bill is currently pending with the Joint Parliamentary Committee.

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