Essay on Preventive Legal Measures against Cyber Crime in India !
Laws are generally meant for meeting the needs of the society and it is, therefore, a dynamic concept which undergoes changes with the changing need of the society. The modern information technology evolution has enabled human society to prosper and make tremendous progress but at the same time given rise to new problems hereto unknown to mankind and cyber criminality is one such grave area.
The progressive trend of computer technology has accelerated transfer of information and telecommunicates and increased our capacity to store, search, retrieve and communicate data over the world in shortest possible time.
ADVERTISEMENTS:
Consequent to the advancement of information technology and computer network, a variety of legal issues related to use (misuse) of Internet as digital processing devices such as piracy, IPR violations, pornography, commercial and banking frauds etc. have emerged which need to be tackled through the instrumentality of law.
Since cyber space has no geographical boundaries, nor has it physical characteristics such as sex, age etc. it poses a big challenge before the law enforcement agencies for regulating cyber-space transactions of citizens within a country’s territorial jurisdiction. Though in practical terms, an Internet user is subject to the laws of the state within which he or she goes online, but this general rule runs into conflict when the disputes are international involving other countries as well.
Because of the anonymity of its character and negligible chances of being detected, the cyber offenders are misusing the computer technology for committing a variety of crimes which need to be prevented by an effective law and regulatory measures.