Tag: cyber crime
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Decoding the Petya Ransomware Attack
By Sunidhi Singh, Army Institute of Law, Mohali. “Technology is a useful servant but a dangerous master.” –Christian Lous Lange Computers were invented to help human beings perform tough and time consuming tasks accurately, within seconds and the internet was developed as a research and information sharing tool. However, our present situation is a total reverse.…
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Cyber Crimes to be Penalised: An Overview of the Report by the Expert Committee
By Rabia Mohamed Ismail Abdul Rahim, NUALS, Kochi. In 2005, the Supreme Court in Shreya Singhal v. Union of India struck down Section 66A of the Information Technology Act, which penalised the sending of offensive messages through computer resource or other communication services, thus leading to leniency with regard to laws governing penalisation for the delivering…
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Cyber Challenges and Emerging Trends: A Step ahead of Law
By Priyanka Gehlot, Raffles University, Rajasthan. Cyber crime is just another invention of a technological advancement. As more and more people started accessing internet, the paradigm of cyber space changed from a utopia to a doom and gloom. This vicious circle operates through technical methods of spoofing, onion routing, bot mapping which disguises the real Internet Protocol…
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Security of the State versus Right to Privacy
By Pragya Dhoundiyal, Law Center-1, Faculty of Law, Delhi University. The government of India recently came up with a draft of the National Encryption Policy which is also in place in many other countries. However, our draft has been compared to the drafts of some of the regressive countries of the Middle East because it appeared to…
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Is the Evidence Law in India all set to be overhauled?
By Maithili Parikh, Government Law College, Mumbai. The Indian Evidence Act was originally passed by the Imperial Legislative Council in 1872 and contains a set of rules and allied issues governing admissibility of evidence in Indian Courts, an area of law of unparalleled importance in advocacy and litigation. The enactment and adoption of this code of law…
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Cyber Stalking: Development and Need for Law Reforms
By Shrutika Garg, Jamnalal Bajaj School of Legal Studies, Banasthali Vidyapith. The technological era has led to so many changes in the lifestyle of people. But it has also opened doors for criminal offenders. Earlier, there was a crime called stalking, which meant following someone, or annoying them to cause trouble. This stalking was seen in the…
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Sanjay Kumar v State of Haryana: An Analysis
By Anmol Sinha, Symbiosis Law School Everything in this world evolves. The rule and regulations governing the society has changed down the centuries, so has the mode of commission of crimes. Cyber crime is an example of it. With the advent of internet and information technology, the commission of digital crimes is the new form…
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Equity Crowd Funding: Interface between Internet Governance & Finance
By Aishwarya Dhakarey, Symbiosis Law School, Pune. In simple words, inviting funds from multiple investors for a specific social cause or project or undertaking and all this takes place in a web-based platform or a social networking website. Crowd funding is sub divided into various types namely, donation crowd funding, reward crowd funding, peer-to-peer lending and equity…
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Bitcoins: The Gen Next Revolution or Disaster
By Sanya Darakhshan Kishwar, Central University of Bihar, Gaya. A Critical Analysis of viability of Bitcoins as Currency Bitcoins is a peer-to-peer payment system introduced as open-source software in 2009 by developer Satoshi Nakamoto.[1] The payments in the system are recorded in a public ledger using its own unit of account,[2] which is also called Bitcoins. The US Treasury calls Bitcoins a decentralized virtual currency as the…
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Cyber Law: An Overview
By Sagarika Chandel, KIIT School of Law, Bhubaneswar. “The modern thief can steal more with a computer than with a gun. Tomorrow’s terrorist may be able to do more damage with a keyboard than a bomb”. -National Research Council, USA “Computers at Risk” (1991) Internet in India has been ever growing at a fast pace…