Chennai: The DMK on Friday slammed the Centre's order authorising the various Central intelligence and investigating agencies to intercept cyber communications and decrypt "computer resource", charging that the BJP Government was violating the 'right to privacy' guaranteed by the Constitution.
"The order is a direct violation of fundamental rights & against the #RighttoPrivacy guaranteed by our #Constitution", tweeted DMK president MK Stalin. "The order must be taken back. We are not a surveillance state. This is totally unacceptable", Stalin said.
Quickly, the DMK chief had a flood of tweets snapping at him, accusing him of being "blind" to the truth that the original Information Technology Act, 2000 (21 of 2000) for the 'interception, monitoring and decryption of Information', on which the present order of the Union Home Ministry was passed, had been was in fact made during the period of A Raja of the DMK as the IT Minister.
Most tweets argued that only those indulging in anti-national activities need be worried over the Home Ministry order permitting the probe agencies to intercept, monitor and decrypt of information on cyber space and on computer sources.
In this order various central and intelligence agencies have been authorised to intercept, monitor and decrypt " information generated, transmitted, received or stored in any computer resource under the said Act".
