Tuesday, June 15, 2010

CYBER SECRECY - NEED TO KEEP AN EYE

Every new technology has pluses and minuses and the introduction of internet is not the exception. It is right that today computers have become a device in which a secret is entrusted and can be stored for safety. But there are always gains and losses in any technology.

One of the biggest concerns of the Internet has been the issue of privacy. Individuals generally do not want their personal communications to be available to the public.

Yet this new form of high-accessible authorship in cyber space raises questions and perhaps magnifies legal complexities.

Success in any filed of human activity leads to crime that needs mechanisms to control it. Crime is no longer limited to space, time or a group of people. It has now given a new way to express criminal tendencies. Now around 500 million people are hooked up to surf the net around the globe.

Today, computer having all the data of any country and an individual and it is a challenge to the software engineers to further develop the technology so that no other than the real owner of data with personal password could hack it.

No doubt Cyber law India claims to be best cyber legal regime in the world but in the present circumstances, still there is a need to keep an eye to make it more effective and secure cyber transactions for the new developments on the internet.