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India: An Overview Of Cyber Laws vs. Cyber Crimes: In Indian Perspective
Due to immense increase in the use of Internet and dependency of individuals in every field, a number of new crimes related to Computer and other gadgets based on internet have evolved in the society. Such crimes where use of computers coupled with the use of Internet is involved are broadly termed as Cyber Crimes.
Governing Laws
There was no statute in India for governing Cyber Laws involving privacy issues, jurisdiction issues, intellectual property rights issues and a number of other legal questions. With the tendency of misusing of technology, there arisen a need of strict statutory laws to regulate the criminal activities in the cyber world and to protect the true sense of technology "INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY ACT, 2000" [ITA- 2000] was enacted by Parliament of India to protect the field of e-commerce, e-governance, e-banking as well as penalties and punishments in the field of cyber crimes. The above Act was further amended in the form of IT Amendment Act, 2008 [ITAA-2008]....read more...