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NEW DELHI: Fresh controversy over alleged use of spyware Pegasus for snooping purposes may have scratched open a old malaise that has festered due to successive governments' irresistible desire for illegal interception of telephones for decades despite the Supreme Court in 1996 laying down unambiguous and stringent guidelines to curb unauthorised surveillance. From the 1970s, the SC has taken up many cases of telephone tapping. The Second Press Commission, set up by Morarji Desai government in 1978, in its report had referred to this malaise and said, "not infrequently, the Press in general ...