tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-41004862011-12-10T20:25:22.146-08:00Views on Cyber LawsNaavihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06934985010059663940noreply@blogger.comBlogger351100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4100486.post-12259861770476902402011-12-10T20:20:00.001-08:002011-12-10T20:25:22.163-08:00

This article first published in December 2000 at www.naavi.org is reposted here in the context of Mr Sibal's new move. Recently there has been reports of a spate of Rogue Web sites carrying "Anti Indian" messages, the latest being the one from the Tamil Nationalist group interlinked with the Islamic fundamentalists. It is certainly alarming for the E-Governance of the Country that such sites

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Mr Kapil Sibal first stated that he wanted Facebook, Google and other Social Networking sites to introduce "Human controlled pre-screening of content" before they are posted. He cited that there are many anti national postings which could stir up communal passions etc. Many however believed that he was agitated because of some cartoons of Sonia Gandhi published some where which were perhaps

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Case filed to declare Aadhar as illegal Nov27: A case has been filed in Bangalore to declare Aadhar as "Illegal".Plaintiffs have cited various reasons including security, procedures, contract related issues as well as privacy violation. etc. Copy of the plaint

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Estimate of Phishing Cases in India Nov26: According to an answer provided by Minister Sachin Pilot in Parliament, 508 and 386 phishing cases was reported to CERT-In in the year 2010 and during January-October 2011 respectively. ..Report : TOI reportNCRB Statistics on Cyber Crimes Nov 24: NCRB has now released the crime statistics for 2010 as in the previous years.

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Yahoo Challenges GOI order Nov 27: Yahoo has challenged the order of GOI imposing a fine of Rs 11 lakhs for refusing to part with some information demanded by the Government. The details sought for was regarding the e-mails sent claiming responsibility for the Delhi High Court blast. While Yahoo has raised a defense that it is duty bound to protect "Privacy", it is on a

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When you face an Internet Banking Fraud..in India Nov 18: Internet banking frauds are common place particularly in India. I often receive requests for guidance on this matter from victims from different parts of India not knowing

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Facebook and ITA 2008-Need for Practicing Due Dilgence Nov 18: Facebook has been under the center of a controversy in India for "Non Compliance of ITA 2008". It is reported that due to a security failure several thousands of Facebook users received a spam content which was then used to compromise the respective accounts of the user. Consequently links were reportedly posted which

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Chennai Banks Forced to pay Nov 18: After the Chennai Police unearthed a major credit card scam, it is reported that Banks have started reimbursing the losses to the customers on the basis of FIRs lodged. Canara Bank and ICICI Banks are reported to have repaid Rs 8 lakhs against 15 complaints so far. A total of 247 complaints have been filed with the Police in this connection. The total loss

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Are Vested Interests at Work to manipulate RBI ?Jan 24: The GGWG was an exercise at revising the 10 year old report of the SR Mittal Group which first addressed the requirements of the Internet Banking Era. Compared to the task which was ahead of the Mittal Group, GGWG was in a far more advantageous position since there was a decade old experience on both technology as well as the legal aspects

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Phishing Victims.. Sample Letter Feb3: In continuation of the previous article, here is a sample letter which I recommend Phishing victims to send to RBI as a comment on the G Gopalakrishna Working Group. This may be downloaded signed and sent to the address mentioned there in or e-mailed as indicated. You can use your letterhead and add any other comments you may like

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ITA-2000 Amendment Bill Introduced..15/12/06..2000The much awaited ITA-2000 amendment bill specially designed to protect Intermediaries such as baazee.com has been introduced in the Indian Parliament. Naavihttp://www.naavi.orgIs India Becoming a Criminal Friendly Country?The extraordinary interest shown by writers like Ms Arundati Roy to save Afzal Guru (Convicted with death penalty for terrorist

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Is it a Witch posing as a Beautiful Girl?.. Or Is it the Proposed Amendments to ITA-2000?Amendments to Information Technology Act -2000 in India is hailed by some as a welcome "Tightening of Laws". Some others call it "Criminal Friendly" and a Fraud on the society in India. You be the Judge.NaaviVijayashankarwww.naavi.org

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Virtual Adultery.. a problem of the timesThis article in TOI indicates a growing tendency of the current generation to lead a virtual life different from the physical life and do things which they are constrained not to do because of the norms of the society. No where this crossing of boundaries more evident than in the relationship with the opposite sex. While Cyber Sociologists have to take up

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CBI to Investigate "Morphing" allegationCBI has started an interesting investigation on alleged morphing of a photograph published in a book. While the use of the country's highest investigating agency for a case of low priority indicates a political hand behind the order, the investigation is likely to be academically interesting.From the reports the brief appears to be not only to confirm

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When Virtual Reality HurtsIndia is a land where Shankara's Advaita philosophy was born. One of the main elements of this philosophy is that the world is "Maya".. "non existent in reality but experienced in imagination". The philosophy says that we experience pains and pleasures through imagination/hallucination. We do get a vindication of this theory in dreams and when we look at persons whom we

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Is Computer Virus a Work of Art?Certain developments in the digital society highlight the different sociological standards that seems to prevail in the Digital Society. When we discuss Cyber Crimes and the behavioural aspects of Netizens, Naavi.org has been discussing a concept of "Technology Intoxication". When some technology wizards claim "Virus" as work of art, (Refer http://0100101110101101.

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Social Networking Websites to be barred from US Schools?In what is termed as an attempt to protect Children from the ill effects of the Internet, US is getting ready to pass a law titled "Deleting Online Predators Act" (DOPA). The effect of the act is to bar certain websites from being accessed from Schools and Public Libraries receiving Government funding. The sites which would be affected would

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Indian Pseudo Cyber Security Activists..all set to play a fraud on the societyTwo new legislations being contemplated in USA indicate the raise of new thoughts in Cyber Space regulations which will in due course contribute to the cumulative knowledge of "Cyber Jurisprudence". The first is the raising demand for "Mandatory Monitoring of ISPs".While the countries with stringent records of Privacy

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Are Hyderabad Police partners in an illegal activity?A Times of India Report states that it is common in Hyderabad for people to approach private so called "IT Security" companies to investigate cyber crimes. Not withstanding the success stories narrated in the report, it needs to be recognized that this trend of private investigation is dangerous and equivalent to private "dadagiri".It is also

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Are Hyderabad Police, partners in an illegal activity?A Times of India Report states that it is common in Hyderabad for people to approach private so called "IT Security" companies to investigate cyber crimes. Not withstanding the success stories narrated in the report, it needs to be recognized that this trend of private investigation is dangerous and equivalent to private "dadagiri".It is also

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Are Hyderabad Police, partners in an illegal activity?A Times of India Report states that it is common in Hyderabad for people to approach private so called "IT Security" companies to investigate cyber crimes. Not withstanding the success stories narrated in the report, it needs to be recognized that this trend of private investigation is dangerous and equivalent to private "dadagiri".It is also

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Nasscom is failing in its duty Nasscom is the national association of software companies in India. For many aspects, Government considers Nasscom as the representative of the IT industry. Also when any reforms are meant for the ICT sector, the opinion of Nasscom becomes a key input. Nasscom Chairman is often taken into confidence when important decisions that affect the Cyber Regulations

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"Learn to Unlearn", the first principle of "Cyber Jurisprudence".An interesting legal development in USA involving a law suit in physical space over a dispute of a virtual property has attracted attention of Cyber Law specialists. A case has been filed by a Pennsylvania resident Marc Bragg against San Francisco-based Internet game company Linden Lab and its president and CEO for alleged

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e-Extortions..Punishable in India under Information Technology ActThere is a raging debate in India about cyber crimes and the legislative environment. Media is full of reports that the Government of India is “Tightening the Laws” to protect the industry against Cyber Crimes such as data theft which are frequently reported in the country. These reports refer to the proposed amendments to ITA-2000

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What the MCIT RejectedTo appreciate the folly of the Government in suggesting amendments to ITA-2000 with an ulterior objective settling scores with the Police, it is necessary to also take a look at the suggestions made by Naavi.org which of course were not to the liking of the so called "Expert" committee. Had some of these suggestions been considered, the amendments would have been meaningful.

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Nasscom is failing in its dutyNasscom is the national association of software companies in India. For many aspects, Government considers Nasscom as the representative of the IT industry. Also when any reforms are meant for the ICT sector, the opinion of Nasscom becomes a key input. Nasscom Chairman is often taken into confidence when important decisions that affect the Cyber Regulations in the

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Misconceptions on ITA-2000 Amendments..ContinueA few days back, we had brought to the notice of the public, an article in Times of India which had tried to build a case for the early passage of the proposed amendments arguing that it would benefit the handling of Cyber Crimes. We had at that time pointed out that this was a misconception and the proposed amended act will actually dilute the

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You be the judge....Are the new provisions are "Tightening of the Laws" or "Criminal Friendly".During the last week, there have been umpteen number of press reports and blog reports in India and abroad that India is "Tightening its Cyber Laws", "Data Theft will now have stringent punishment" etc. These reports were based on a PIB press release which the media reproduced blindly.Naavi.org has

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Judicial Revolution on cardsWith details of 30 million cases in more than 17000 courts in India to be made available on line with magistrates using digital signatures to sign orders etc, the Indian judicial system is set for a revolution that can bring unprecedented changes in India. This will be a boon to the litigants who often are kept in the dark about the developments of a case for which

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Is there a difference in "Creating an Object of Information" and "Publishing the Object"? Continuing the discussion on Bloggers Beware, Naavi presents the next article in the series of articles on various issues that concern Bloggers. ...Details

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Mobile Forensics..A New Challenge The increasing use of Mobile phones by the population as a personal means of communication has made Mobile Phones an important piece of evidence in many legal cases. In the coming days, Mobiles will be used for e-commerce and the relevance of Mobile Evidence will assume greater importance. ..Manipulating SIM card data on the instrument is a very easy process and

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Inspired by Film.. A Cyber Crime in Chennai In another incident of an Internet related offence, an youth was arrested in Chennai for sending e-mails to some Government officials stating that bombs will be exploded in some Tamil Nadu State Marketing Corporation (TASMAC) depots. The incident again underscores the responsibilities of our educational institutions and work places to inculcate

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Mobile Forensics and Digital Evidence Following the article on Mobile Forensics in these columns, Mr Svine Y Williassen from Norway has sent a link to a highly informative paper on GSM Mobile System and Forensics published by him. I thank Mr Sveine for the information which I am sure would be considered valuable by all visitors to this site...Naavi "Forensics and GSM Mobile Telephone System", by

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Bloggers Beware Internet was born free..But the truth is that the Indian law at present applicable to the Internet usage, represented by the Information Technology Act 2000 (ITA-2000) has a section 67 containing a stringent provision for publishing and distribution of obscene material in electronic form. This provision is of great importance to all web site owners who are "Publishers" and also

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This Blog is dedicated to expression of views on Cyber Law as a follow up of www.naavi.org.Those who post comments may kindly take note that they do so at their own risk and responisbility and do not use the blog for publishing or distributing any information which is not legal. In particular, information which is obscene in electronic form as per Section 67 of the ITA-2000 or is defamatory or

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