Indian Government will now tap all phones

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India will soon face far higher levels of phone surveillance with the government set to take control of all phone and wire tapping activities. Till now, the government would entrust the work of tapping to the relevant individual telecom operators. But a felt need for higher levels of secrecy in the backdrop of growing terror attacks, has spurred it do away with multiple channels of surveillance and set up instead a centralized official tapping facility.
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http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/news/india/Govt-to-take-a-Rs-800-cr-grip-over-phone-tapping/articleshow/4887769.cms