Cyber crime is a very familiar word to internet and mobile users. It
covers each and every crime, in which any type of electronic
communication or information technology has been used. This is a crime
of virtual world of internet. Growing rates of internet users is also
raising rates of cyber crime in various manners. Cyber crime has started
to hijack our social and personal life. All the related issues of cyber
crime are dealt with cyber law. Cyber law is a set of law which enables
the state to control and regulate the cyber world or cyberspace.
Cyber law covers all crimes related to internet or computers. It
includes all possible crimes such as hacking of information, copyright
infringement, financial theft, pornography, abusing etc. on online.
Cyber law has been divided in two sections— local government level and
global level. At local government level it is heard in jurisdiction of
concerned country, while at global level it is used to cross-border
crimes which is decided according to international legal system. Cyber
laws deals with following points:
Spam: unauthorized sending of bulk emails is illegal
according cyber law. It is the smallest but mostly times done crime of
cyber law but spammer may have get strict punishment from the court.
Fraud: Any internet or computer user who represents
him/her self wrongly with false information to cheat someone is a fraud.
A fraud He can sell or disable your data after hacking it. He can make
an unauthorized transaction of money from one account to another. He can
steal personal information for his personal use or hacking your online
accounts. He can make unauthorized access to another system or he can
cheat you through false information.
Posting/uploading offensive or obscene content:
Anyone can’t upload content which is offensive or indecent in any
manner. No one can promote nudity, pornography including content having
abusive, seditious, slanderous and racist language.
Harassment: No one is allowed to harass anyone on
any basis through electronic communication. It covers all possible types
of harassing such as cyber bullying, stalking, threat or hate mails. It
protects cyber users from net bullies.
Illegal drug trafficking: is also a part of cyber
crimes. Banned medicines, illegal drugs and harmful steroids can’t be
sold through internet or cyber world. Cyber law stops the illegal drug
trafficking in every manner.
Cyber terrorism: is a new form of terrorism based on
information technology. We can understand it as attack on our cyber
space which is more dangerous then real terrorism. A group of
professional experts of information technology can destroy the internal
systems of servers and can take over the whole control of a city or
state in their hand to damage its civil and emergency services for their
personal motives.
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