What does the Niira Radia tapes, Wikileaks and whole body scanners have in common? It is the end of privacy both for the public individual or the private one. For the public individual, every thing that they speak or write can now be put in public domain. A quarter of a million cables from US Embassies around the world, some of them marked highly confidential are now public. So are the private conversations of the high and mighty in India – from how they manipulated the system to everyday trivia are all out there. A US Government or a Tata may scream about invasion of their secret private world. In the new digital era, they have to start recognising they do not have this any more.

An article on the Radia Tapes and the role of sections of the Indian media.