Directions: In the following passage, some words have been deleted. Select the most appropriate option to fill in each blank.

It is all well to state, as the Government has done, that the country requires a new legal framework and not the existing one that is based on the Indian Telegraph Act, 1885, to ___(1)___ with the realities of the 21st century. But, it is not just technology that has ___(2)___ in over a century but also a democratic society’s understanding and expectations of user rights, privacy, and transparency. Not long ago, the highest court in the country ___(3)___ a citizen’s right to privacy as a fundamental right. This draft, however, disappoints on the above counts. According to it, for instance, the Government has the power to ___(4)___ a message from being transmitted “on the occurrence of any public emergency or in the interest of the public safety”. Another clause in the draft Bill requires an entity that has been granted a license to “___(5)___ identify the person to whom it provides services”. A similar clause under the IT rules brought in last year — requiring messaging apps to “enable the identification of the first originator of the information on its computer resource” — has been ___(6)___ in the Court. There are enough valid reasons to doubt whether this is even technically possible without breaking encryption and making all communications ___(7)___. While this is not to ___(8)___ the mounting challenges for ensuring security, the repeated attempts by the Government to be able to tap into all kinds of communication, without making sure the common man has legal armor in the form of a data protection law, is extremely ___(9)___. The Government needs to ___(10)___ its thinking on users and privacy. This draft needs to go back to the drawing board.