Mobile Cell Phones And Cyber Crimes In India

HOW SAFE ARE WE ? N. A. Gupta, INTRODUCTION : Telecommunication was introduced in India long back in the year 1882.  There was a mushroom growth of telecommunication after the advent of Internet and Mobile technology in India.  It was on 15th August 1995 when the first mobile telephone service started on a non-commercial basis  [ Read More ]

Examination of Section 66A of the Information Technology Act

Technology changes the dimension of the society. Obscenity in electronic form, morphing  of images, defamation, text bullying, stalking, spamming, unsolicited emails, criminal intimidation, extortion, public mischief, insult, threat to cause injury have penetrated in this modern society with the help of cyber technology. Under this back drop the legislative body incorporated section 66 A under  [ Read More ]

HC seeks replies by Centre on PIL against US film

Bombay High Court today issued notices to the Centre, Maharashtra Government and others on the petition seeking removal of the controversial anti-Islam film `The Innocence of Muslims’ from the Internet. Division bench of Justices S A Bobade and Rajesh Ketkar today sought replies of the respondents in two weeks. The other respondents to the PIL  [ Read More ]

Advertisement and freedom of speech

“Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties”. – John Milton The essence of free speech is the ability to think and speak freely and to obtain information from others through publications and public discourse without fear of retribution, restriction, or repression by the government.  [ Read More ]

CYBER CRIMES AND THE LAW

In the era of cyber world as the usage of computers became more popular, there was expansion in the growth of technology as well, and the term ‘Cyber’ became more familiar to the people. The evolution of Information Technology (IT) gave birth to the cyber space wherein internet provides equal opportunities to all the people  [ Read More ]