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As you are aware, Google is planning to use a new privacy policy and terms of service (ToS) on 01-01-2012. Many people have raised valid concerns that this may be adoption of a more intrusive and e-surveillance oriented approach by Google. On the other hand, consolidation of various privacy policies and ToS at a single place has many benefits and advantages as well.Only time would tell whether

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Something terribly wrong is happening at Google India office and functions. Whether it is compliance with Indian intellectual property laws or cyber law or screening of India specific search results, everything seems to be in real mess at Google India’s part.Recently, posts pertaining to the controversial non allowance of video conference of Salman Rushdie were mysterically removed from India

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Information and communication technology (ICT) is increasingly posing challenges before Indian government. Sometimes, novel situations and challenges are posed before Indian government that they have to resolve. This is the reason why companies like Google and Facebook are fighting legal battles in India.There is no second opinion that India is anxious to control information technology. Measures

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Foreign websites and social media platforms are defending themselves in India under the cyber law of India. In fact, the cyber law due diligence and social media due diligence have emerged as the perspective cyber law trends of India in 2012. Clearly, foreign companies and websites must keep in mind the conflict of laws across the world that they have to adhere to.Although cyberspace is not a

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There are certain offences against the State that cannot be tried by any court in India till central/state government grants its permission. Such permission is granted under section 196 of the Code of Criminal Procedure (CrPC), 1973 and once granted certain criminal offense committed against a nation/state can be prosecuted.Lack of cyber due diligence and weak arguments before the Delhi High

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Recently we covered an article titled should Wordpress be blocked in India? The article was a result of the increasingly denial of US based and foreign companies to comply with Indian laws like copyright law and cyber law of India. As matters of fact foreign companies are openly violating the intellectual property rights and cyber law of Indians and even if contacted they are not willing to

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Cyber crimes in India are increasing rapidly. With the proliferation of social media websites in India, cyber crimes have not spared even such social media websites. A lot of cyber crimes, cyber contraventions, intellectual property rights (IPRs) violations, etc are committed due to lack of awareness about cyber law of India.Further, there are very low cyber crimes convictions in India. This is

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Electronic banking (e-banking) in India is seen as a viable and alternative mechanism to do traditional banking business. Even banking customers are happy to use the same for reasons of efficiency and time saving. However, there are many e-banking security related issues that are not paid attention to by Indian banks.Cyber security of banking transactions in India is an important aspect that must

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This is the updated version of my previous article titled India is desperate to control technology. It has been censored by Google through manual action penalty so it requires reposting for the larger interests of viewers and netizens.This post has also been censored by Digital Journal where it was originally posted through the infamous trump card of spam communication used by Internet

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Adoption of information and communication technology (ICT) by Indian government seems to be a herculean task. Naturally, if India cannot understand the technology, it would prefer to block the same as whatever we do not understand we fear of the same.This holds true for India. Instead of befriending technology, Indian government is considering the same its enemy. From Internet censorship to

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This post covers some recent updates regarding cyber law, cyber security, ethical hacking education and skills development in India, censorships by Google and Facebook, cyber security of ICICI bank’s products like Internet banking and credit cards, cyber due diligence in India, malware and virus attacks, etc.(1) Virus Attack On ICICI Bank Transactions: A Cyber Security Lapse2) After Google It Is

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I am no big fan of conspiracy theories but I am a big fan of civil liberties protection in cyberspace. I also believe that when rights are outlawed only outlawed would have rights. If you add e-surveillance to this situation, the plight of civil liberties in cyberspace is well understood.If a company engages in online profiling and data mining, something is grossly wrong with its policies and

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Recently news about virus attack upon ICICI bank transactions was reported. While it is premature to consider this fact true or false yet truth and authenticity of the claims of either the security professional or the ICICI bank must be established through an official channel.Now another person has raised hypothetical doubts about the security of ICICI Credit Card in India. The author has tried

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For long Google denied the concept of manual action penalty against websites. Google maintained that websites are only algorithmically demoted if they are found violating the guidelines and quality standards of Google. However, this assertion of Google cannot be trusted if we analyse the numerous cases of websites delisting and demotion that is frequently conducted by Google.The real question

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It seems the guys at Google and Facebook have nothing better to do than messing up with accounts of their users. While Google demoted my block after its initial censorship, Facebook has altogether blocked me from my account.Surprisingly whenever companies like Google or Facebook have to adopt measures that are neither strictly legal nor in conformity with their own policies, they always invoke

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The online banking system of India is not cyber secure. Take the recent example of virus attack upon ICICI Internet banking transactions. It proved that Internet banking system and mechanism of ICICI bank is not cyber secure. It is not even clear whether ICICI bank has appointed a chief information officer (CIOs) to manage its Internet banking functions that has been made compulsory by the

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There are many significant developments happening in India and abroad in the fields like cyber security, websites blocking, Internet censorship, skills development an trainings, etc. Some of such developments have been covered by my digital paper titled The Priyanka Sharma Daily.This post is summarising and giving the account of the some of these articles posted in the past few weeks.Some of the

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Internet banking is both a necessity and evil. As a necessity it brings conform and time efficiency. As a drawback, it attracts various forms of financial frauds and cyber crimes. With the removal of limits for financial transaction through mobile banking in India, more such cyber crimes and financial frauds are anticipated.These are the few good posts in this regard that have been shared in the

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Internet banking in India or e-banking in India is a process that involves use of information and communication technology (ICT) for doing various banking related transactions. While use of ICT for banking purposes in India has many advantages yet there are certain cyber law, cyber security and due diligence tasks as well that Indian banks must perform to escape civil and criminal

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Technology has brought many benefits for banking consumers in India. However, technology has also given birth to many unforeseen challenges. Cyber security challenges of Internet banking in India have grown tremendously in the past. In fact, Internet banking in India is not cyber secure despite the recommendations of Reserve Bank of India (RBI). Banks in India are ignoring the cyber security due

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Online banking transactions in India and electronic banking in India are in a real mess. Thanks to the defunct cyber law of India, inadequate cyber security mechanisms like encryption usages for banks, ignoring the cyber security due diligence requirements prescribed by Reserve Bank of India (RBI) and many more such issues.Naturally, online banking risks in India have increased tremendously. We

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Cyber law of India is a very young legal framework. The information technology act, 2000 (IT Act 2000) brought the cyber law of India in existence. With the passage of time, many amendments were also introduced in the cyber law of India. However, cyber law being a dynamic and updating law requires continuous upgradations and improvements.Being a new field, there are very few lawyers and law firms

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Electronic commerce (e-commerce) in India is witnessing a rapid growth. As more and more business entities and entrepreneurs are becoming aware of the benefits of online presence and brand promotion and protection in India, e-commerce has become a popular method of doing business. Even domain name protection in India has assumed significance due to this reason.We have no dedicated e-commerce laws

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There was a time when brain drain from India was happening at a great pace. This was because the employment opportunities and living conditions of other nations, especially developed nations, was incentive enough to migrate to such countries.With the economic growth of India and better working conditions available at India, workforce is considering returning back to India. Further, areas like

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This article has raised very pertinent points regarding internet censorship in India. Internet censorship in India should not be a norm in a democratic country like India. Better solutions exist to address this crucial issue. Censorship of internet in India by bypassing the constitutional mandates amount to anarchy that should not be the norm in India.Internet in India is under potential threat

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Legal process outsourcing in India (LPO in India) and knowledge process outsourcing in India (KPO in India) are two terms that do not require any introduction. India having an English fluent educated workforce is one of the favourite destinations for LPO and KPO related services.However, other countries are now giving a tough fight to India in LPO and KPO services and Indian LPO and KPO industry

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Social networking is an area whose time has come. People across the globe are part of social media and networking platforms. This also applies to India. However, dedicated social networking laws in India and social media laws in India are missing despite much requirement.Even we have no social media policy of India that governs the use of social media in India. The growing demands for cyber due

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Human rights protection in cyberspace is an important aspect of civil liberties protection these days. However, despite the significance of this issue, both national and international governments ate shying away from protecting human rights in cyberspace. On the other hand they are actively engaging in e-surveillance, Internet censorship, etc that violates various civil liberties in cyberspace.

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Cyber crimes in India are increasing at a rapid rate. However, the cyber law of India is not strong enough to deter these cyber crimes and common man has to suffer the results of this weak cyber law of India.Further, the law enforcement agencies of India are not well trained to deal with cyber crimes. If a person whishes to lodge a first information report (FIR) with the police for a cyber crime,

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India has one of the largest educated workforces of the world. However, a majority of these educated students are not suitable for employment purposes. This is because employment requires skills and practical trainings that our academic educational system does not provide.Indian government is aware of this limitation of Indian educational system and is working in the direction of skills

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Skills development in India is an area that requires top priority. Even among various skills, cyber skills development in India requires a special treatment. Skills development in India for technical education is missing as Indian educational institutions are paying more attention to academic nature rather than practical and vocational requirements.Cyber crimes in India are increasing at an

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Indian defense and security against cyber warfare is not upto the mark. A major reason for this lack of cyber capabilities is that India has very few institutions that can provide good and qualitative techno legal skills development, education, courses and trainings in the field of cyber security.Thus, cyber security skills development in India is directly related to good and qualitative cyber

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World over it is a common belief that law enforcement agencies are well behind the cyber criminals and they cannot meet the growing challenges of cyber law and cyberspace. Even the law enforcement agencies are also of the opinion that their expertise is well behind the expertise of cyber criminals and crackers.A well organised police cell for dealing with cyber crimes is still a distant dream.

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Of late, the terrorist activities in India have increased significantly. Unfortunately, Indian government has not been able to deal with terrorism nuisance effectively. In the war against terrorism, India has miserably lost the same despite many efforts in this regard.There are many shortcomings of Indian counter terrorism initiatives. The most important shortcoming is that Indian national

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Protecting children in cyberspace has become a daunting task. As the Internet is not confined with any boundary, fighting online child pornography requires an internationally coordinated effort.This is exactly what happened in a recent episode of surfing child pornography in India. In this case the Interpol coordinated with the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) to unearth the guilty surfers.

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Some sort of vulnerability is common in any security infrastructure and software is no exception to the same. Software vulnerability may occur due to insufficient testing, lack of audit trail, use of publicly available codes, programming errors, etc. A programmer while making a software may assume that all user input is safe. Programs that do not check user input can allow unintended direct

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The drafting of final Jan Lokpal Bill of India is pending before the Parliament Standing Committee (PSC). The task before the PSC is enormous as it has to analyse the inputs of various stakeholders and experts while suggesting the final Jan Lokpal Bill. There are many drafts of Jan Lokpal bills that have been in circulation. Besides, there are many good suggestions from techno legal experts of

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Jan Lokpal has raised many debates. Some are constitutional while others are ethical and those pertaining to the efficacy of Jan Lokpal itself. One issue that has been sternly opposed by the Indian media is whether media should be brought under the purview of proposed Jan Lokpal law of India? Some experts have opined that the idea of bringing the media within the ambit of the Lokpal is "bad and

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Modernisation of police force of India is an issue that has not received much attention of Indian government in general and ministry of home affairs of India in particular. Even the so called cyber crime cells of India lack expertise in fields like cyber law and cyber crimes. The truth is that police in India needs urgent cyber law training. Perry4Law Techno Legal Base (PTLB) of Perry4Law has

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Of late, privacy and data protection issues have assumed importance from the commercial and legal point of views. Commercially privacy and data protection are required to be protected to retain strategic advantage. Legally privacy and data protection are required to be protected under the laws of various jurisdictions. Privacy is a concept that is unknown to Indian culture. However, slowly and

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Up to some time before, Google was considered synonymous with search engine results. However, the picture is fast changing now when competitors are fast catching up with the quality of Google and are challenging its market share. Have you noticed that the search results in Google search engine do not reflect the correct and true picture? If you are a blogger and using the blogspot platform, you

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Technology has brought its own share of legal challenges for both law makers and lawyers. For law makers, technology has posed a challenge of enacting suitable laws that can meet the challenges of misuse of technology. For lawyers, technology has come as an unexplored area that they have to understand, apply and argue in courts and corporate environment. Take the example of India. There are very

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Of late the search results of Google India have messed up badly. If you are a blogger who is blogging for years, you must have already noticed poor placement of your blog posts at Google’s search engine. As a matter of fact other search engines like DuckDuckGo, Yahoo and Bing are producing much better results. There can be many reasons for this poor listing of blog posts at Google. These

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Serious fraud investigation office (SFIO) is a corporate fraud investigating body under the ministry of corporate affairs (MCA), India. SFIO has been seeking broader powers to carry out investigations abroad. Now the MCA is considering this proposal of SFIO that would allow it to trail funds abroad.Lack of such powers has also been hampering SFIO’s investigations into the multi-crore Satyam fraud

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Aadhar project of India is managed by Nandan Nilekani led unique identification authority of India (UIDAI). It has always remained in controversies since it has been launched.Neither Aadhar project nor UIDAI are governed by any legal framework and parliamentary oversight. Aadhar project and UIDAI are purely executive projects with no constitutional sanctity. In fact Aadhar project and UIDAI are

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The Legal Workforce Act of 2011 of US has been doing rounds these days. However, it has also raised many privacy and identity theft concerns as well. Privacy groups of US have been opposing the same as undesirable and a problematic law.These privacy groups believe that storing highly sensitive information, including the biometric details, of the employee would cause many cyber security and

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While going through a good article on cyber security, I was thinking is the cyber security initiatives at national and international levels enough?The article has contended that cyber security at the international level is not upto the mark and there is an urgent need of bringing international harmonisation in this regard.Even there is no international cyber law treaty and different countries are

Kunal Koelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12023813331562182615noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6128680978702650857.post-8334232038853262922011-06-30T12:23:00.000-07:002011-06-30T12:31:02.186-07:00

Indian government exempted the central bureau of investigation (CBI), national investigation agency (NIA) of India and national intelligence grid (Natgrid) from the applicability of right to information act 2005 (RTI Act 2005).Despite sever protests from civil liberty activists and legal experts, Indian government took this controversial step. Of course, it is against the constitution of India as

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Right to privacy is a very important law that is missing from the list of Indian laws. For decades the right to privacy has been ignored by Indian government. However, a stage has reached where many crucial projects of Indian government have become “unconstitutional” as these are violating the crucial right to privacy as declared by the Supreme Court of India.Now Indian government is considering

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Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) is the premier investigating authority of India. It is, however, not at all an intelligence agency though it may be handling few intelligence related aspects or cases. Intelligence work was the main excuse that was given by Indian government to exempt CBI from the applicability of right to information act 2005 (RTI Act 2005).Indian government also exempted

Catherine Fernandeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13220079467296756100noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6128680978702650857.post-29054993983640988332011-06-21T02:40:00.000-07:002011-06-21T02:43:23.070-07:00

Police in India is not very much comfortable with issues pertaining to cyber law and cyber security. Even if cyber crimes cells have been opened all over India they have not proved to be successful in the absence of adequate expertise.India has also a very poor cyber crime conviction rate. The reason behind this is the police officers, lawyers and judges themselves are clueless about cyber

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Legal empowerment of Indian information and communication technology (ICT) regime is still missing. We have no legal enablement of ICT systems in India in true sense.Legal enablement of ICT presupposes adoption of a legal framework that can take care of various dealings in the cyberspace.Cyberspace is very vast and borders less. It is very difficult to regulated cyberspace but national and

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The efforts to have the Jan Lokpal Act of India 2011 are in full progress. However, till now they are at the stage of drafting a Bill for that purpose.Even a final draft Bill has not yet been prepared. In all probability it may not be prepared till the deadline of 30th June 2011.Meanwhile, Praveen Dalal, managing partner of New Delhi based law firm Perry4Law and leading techno legal expert of

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Google has been censoring news results for long. While censoring of unique identification authority of India (UIDAI) related posts is a very regular feature yet censorship and filtering of news regarding international organisations like World Bank and world intellectual property organisation (WIPO) is the latest trend.For some strange reasons the article titled WIPO patent committee discussed

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Cyber security is an issue that has always been ignored by India. As a result, cyber security of India is in a poor condition. Cyber security is not mere formulation of policies but their actual implementation. At this level of implementation, Indian government fails miserably as it lacks the techno legal skill necessary to implement cyber security policies.India needs skilled techno legal

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I wrote a critical article titled “Does World Bank Sees What Happens To Its Loans?. For some strange reasons, this article of mine was censored by Google. Of late Google has been censoring views and opinions that are critical to Indian government. For instance, articles on Aadhar project and UIDAI are frequently censored by Google. Thanks to the draconian cyber law of India, this is now possible

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Intellectual property rights in India (IPRs in India) need no introduction. These include areas like copyright, trademarks, patents, geographical indications, semiconductor protection, domain name protection, etc. Even IPRs services of India are world renowned. We have professionals and firms that are world renowned for providing world class IPRs services in India.However, today’s IPR environment

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Self defence in cyberspace may be exercised either against private individuals or against government and its agencies. In both cases, a well established self defence infrastructure must be established at the governmental and individual levels. India urgently needs a proactive self defence mechanism in cyberspace to effectively tackle private and governmental cyber intrusions.Any government agency

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Both technology related and technology assisted arbitrations in India are rare. Cyber arbitration in India and cyber arbitration and mediation centers in India is difficult to find in India. In fact, we have a single techno legal technology arbitration and mediation centre in India.Recently World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO) has revealed in a statement that cyber squatting has

LNAV Editorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11264295001509379176noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6128680978702650857.post-33962219796424899442011-05-02T20:27:00.000-07:002011-05-02T20:30:34.884-07:00

This is the updated version of my previous article on same topic. Electronic banking in India or e-banking in India is increasingly being used by both banks and customers alike. This brings mobility and convenience to both banks and customers. However, with the benefits there are drawbacks of e-banking as well. This article addresses some of these concerns.Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has come

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The forming of Working Group on Information Security, Electronic Banking, Technology Risk Management and Cyber Frauds by Reserve Bank of India (RBI) was a landmark step taken by RBI. Equally impressive was the imposition of penalty upon 19 commercial banks by RBI for non compliance of prescribed standards. This shows that RBI is not tolerating the causal and non compliance attitude of commercial

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Cyber forensics in India is still not in much use. This is primarily because neither the legal frameworks of India have adopted cyber forensics nor the legal and judicial fraternities are well aware of the technicalities of the same. The scientific knowledge that is essential for legal and judicial fraternity is presently missing in India.On the front of research, education and training as well,

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The right to privacy bill 2011 of India may be the first attempt to regulate privacy related issues. However, as per media reports it seems to be more like a data protection initiative rather than a privacy safeguarding law.India has created a problem for itself by neglecting the privacy protection requirements for long. India has been launching projects without any legal framework and procedural

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Regulatory bodies like securities and exchange board of India (SEBI), competition commission of India (CCI), cyber appellate tribunal (CAT), telecom regulatory authority of India (TRAI), proposed telecom security council of India (TSCI), etc requires domain specific experts to manage the same. Till now Indian government has been deputing its officers from its own departments to these regulatory

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E-discovery and litigations services in India are managed by few firms. However, when it comes to techno legal e-discovery and litigation services in India only one name comes into the mind. Perry4Law Techno Legal Base (PTLB) is the exclusive techno legal e-discovery and litigation services providers of India.Another unique aspect of e-discovery and litigation services of PTLB is that it is the

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Computer security is no more a luxury but an absolute necessity. In the present era, information and data is of extreme importance and value. We cannot allow strategic, sensitive, commercial and crucial data to be lost or stolen by cyber criminals. From mere pranks, hobby and boasting, cyber crime has been transformed into a white collor and organised crime. Crime syndicates are actively engaging

V.K.Singhhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05747949030039927310noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6128680978702650857.post-88792661104938645412011-04-04T02:41:00.000-07:002011-04-04T02:47:30.278-07:00

Recently World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO) has revealed in a statement that cyber squatting has increased significantly. Cyber squatting is basically done through deliberately registering and using popular trade marks as domain name. Once these domain names are registered, they are offered for resale at a much higher price. The genuine trade mark holder has to either give the amount

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Cyber squatting has increased significantly as per a recent statement by World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO). This shows the importance of domain names in today’s commercial and inter connected world. Securing domain name protection in India is a very tedious and troublesome task as India has no domain name protection law as well as cyber squatting law. All cases of cyber squatting

Catherine Fernandeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13220079467296756100noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6128680978702650857.post-27301209278266588722011-03-30T02:57:00.000-07:002011-03-30T03:06:49.764-07:00

Cyber crime is a global menace whereas its dealing is a territorial aspect. This has resulted in inadequate and ineffective measures to fight against cyber crimes. There is no universally acceptable cyber crime treaty of the world. Further, India is also not a part of any treaty or convention on cyber crimes. European Union (EU) has in the past tired to being international norms in this regard

Shayam Prasadhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08755561952945671589noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6128680978702650857.post-10068358576608338152011-03-28T03:34:00.000-07:002011-03-28T03:43:11.049-07:00

This is the updated version of my previous article on data protection law in India. Although data protection law in India is urgently required yet Indian government has slept over the issue. Instead of protecting the civil liberties of Indians, it has chosen the opposite method of illegal e-surveillance and eavesdropping. Even the projects of government of India have been victim of lack of

Ram. K. Kaushikhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01598123484622350541noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6128680978702650857.post-9374377495373991272011-03-27T02:05:00.000-07:002011-03-27T02:09:22.886-07:00

Legal framework for mandatory e-governance services in India is long due. If we make e-governance service optional or discretionary, the whole purpose would be defeated. This is the reason why we need time bound and accountable e-governance based public services in India. Keeping this objective in mind, the central government formulated the draft electronic delivery of services bill 2011 (EDS

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Cyber security business model has been passing through a transformation phase. This is happening due to the growing pace at which technology is changing and evolving. Newer technologies and concepts are revealed on daily basis giving rise to novel cyber security challenges. Senior executives of corporations have expressed great concerns regarding their ability to ensure enterprise security

V.K.Singhhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05747949030039927310noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6128680978702650857.post-5024358048455259412011-03-26T22:24:00.000-07:002011-03-26T22:30:32.839-07:00

Cyber crime is an area that requires policy formulation at the national level. In the Indian context, there is no national cyber crimes policy of India. In fact, cyber crime policy and strategies of India is so important that the issue must be taken up by the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) of India. The present cyber law of India is not effective and PMO must ensure a new cyber law for India.

Kunal Koelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12023813331562182615noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6128680978702650857.post-3144084477211073222011-03-26T21:06:00.000-07:002011-03-26T21:12:45.230-07:00

European Union’s Convention on Cyber Crime is the first international treaty on cyber law. The treaty endeavours to regulate cyber crimes at international level by harmonising national laws, improving cyber crimes investigative techniques and increasing cooperation among nations. The treaty came into force on 1 July 2004. On 1 March 2006 the Additional Protocol to the Convention on Cybercrime

Catherine Fernandeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13220079467296756100noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6128680978702650857.post-45089422384206869712011-03-26T06:57:00.000-07:002012-01-05T04:59:54.549-08:00

Cyber law is one of the emerging career options. It can be pursued by computer professionals, lawyers, management students, corporate executives, etc. Cyber law is also a very important aspect of legal training and corporate management. Legal and management professionals regularly enroll for cyber law training in India these days.Cyber due diligence requirements in banks, companies, firms, etc

Kunal Koelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12023813331562182615noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6128680978702650857.post-81707986908809787742011-03-26T05:49:00.000-07:002011-03-26T05:52:17.794-07:00

Cyber law is no more confined to the limits of a nation alone. Being extra territorial in nature, the cyber law of a nation often travels far beyond the territorial jurisdictions of a nation. Realising the practical difficulties of this extra territorial nature of various cyber law, an International cyber law treaty was formulated at the international level.However, there is no relationship

Shayam Prasadhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08755561952945671589noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6128680978702650857.post-67443691588558445982011-03-24T03:28:00.000-07:002011-03-24T03:35:51.087-07:00

Cyber terrorism in India is no more a new concept. India has been facing constant cyber security attacks. Further, cyber terrorism attacks are also common in Indian cyberspace though their execution and detection is by and large unnoticeable and undetected in India.Cyber terrorism is becoming a big nuisance for India and India has to be technologically as well as legally sound to tackle the same.

Shayam Prasadhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08755561952945671589noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6128680978702650857.post-66417592075068250662011-03-20T08:19:00.000-07:002011-03-20T08:24:19.362-07:00

Cyber security is a highly complicated and very remunerative profession. It requires tremendous knowledge about computers, networks, computing principles and many more complex aspects.These days every discipline has become attached to one or more other disciplines. Cyber security has also been clubbed with legal framework world over. Cyber security has essentially become techno legal in nature

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Cyber security in India has started gaining attention of Indian government. However, the cyber security initiatives of Indian government are still far from satisfactory. We do not have a cyber security policy in India that clearly stipulates the cyber security strategy of India.Cyber security of India is also an essential part of National ICT Policy and Strategy of India. However, despite some

V.K.Singhhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05747949030039927310noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6128680978702650857.post-40597336214444038392011-03-18T02:28:00.000-07:002011-03-18T02:36:05.323-07:00

Online arbitration in India is at its infancy stage. Online arbitration is also known as cyber arbitration in India. Online arbitration in India is not very popular because there are very few online arbitration and mediation centre in India.Online arbitration is an essential part of the online dispute resolution (ODR) mechanism. Online dispute resolution in India is still at its initial stages.

Catherine Fernandeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13220079467296756100noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6128680978702650857.post-32136016669213316472011-03-17T05:43:00.000-07:002011-03-17T05:52:03.469-07:00

Encryption is a mechanism through which the privacy, integrity and security of a communication or electronic transaction is ensured. Encryption strength is measured in terms of bits and the more bits are there the stronger is the encryption methodology used.Encryption is an essential aspect of cyber security and secure e-commerce transactions. Despite the pressing requirements of formulating

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Computer forensics is a highly specialised field that requires techno legal expertise. Computer forensics is a growing field world over and India is also trying to use computer forensics for its legal and judicial purposes.Indian legal and judicial fraternity must develop scientific temperament and technical knowledge in fields like cyber law, cyber forensics, e-discovery, digital evidencing,

LNAV Editorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11264295001509379176noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6128680978702650857.post-21104307209583505552011-03-05T23:47:00.000-08:002011-03-05T23:50:52.216-08:00

Banking sector of India is passing through a reformative phase. Lots of banking reforms are under process and Reserve Bank of India (RBI) is playing a major role in the same. Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee has been extending his full support for banking and financial sector reforms as well.Even in the fields of cyber law, cyber security, cyber due diligence, prevention of cyber banking frauds,

V.K.Singhhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05747949030039927310noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6128680978702650857.post-47145349951331788082011-03-03T08:50:00.000-08:002011-03-03T08:54:20.533-08:00

The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has recently released the Report of the High Level Committee (HLC) on the IT Vision of Reserve Bank of India 2011-2017. The HLC report includes the IT Vision document for 2011-17.RBI has set some very ambitious objectives for itself. These include transforming itself into an information intensive knowledge organisation, harnessing human resource potential,

Catherine Fernandeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13220079467296756100noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6128680978702650857.post-70591299588567218342011-03-03T04:02:00.000-08:002011-03-03T04:09:58.533-08:00

Judges in India, especially those manning the lower courts, are working really hard. At times they do not have time to even brush up their legal acumen and knowledge. Further, news laws are enacted every year by Indian Parliament and unless the judges attend some refresher course on regular basis, these legislations are not known to them.However, nothing is more missing than the techno legal

LNAV Editorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11264295001509379176noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6128680978702650857.post-48392499345105585102011-02-25T04:53:00.000-08:002011-02-25T04:57:50.502-08:00

Google has finally done something that justifies its reputation and capabilities. It has come heavily upon content farming sites and splogs. By removing content farming sites and splogs and by placing low quality and contents scrapping sites at very low search level, Google is going to make its search results more relevant and meaningful.However, not everything is in order at Google to achieve

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E-governance in India has by and large a failure. This is because of the poor policy decisions taken by Indian government. There is too much stress upon procurement as opposed to management. India has to accept that computerization of traditional governmental and public functions are not e-governance. We have to empower the citizens with the power of ICT.Information and Communication Technology (

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It is no secret that criminals are using information technology for various nefarious activities in India. It has become very important for law enforcement agencies, security agencies and legal and judicial members of India to understand technology.Police force plays an important role in maintaining law and order in the society. Police force is also the first level of interaction that brings

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National security is very important for any nation including India. However, the term national security is also the most controversial and vague one. This has been deliberately done so that the card of national security can be played anytime to suppress civil liberties.In the year 2008 letters regarding "constitutionality" of the proposed information technology (Amendment) Bill, 2008 (IT Act 2008

Kunal Koelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12023813331562182615noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6128680978702650857.post-86186655974103031182011-02-18T07:43:00.000-08:002011-02-18T07:46:45.004-08:00

Cyber law of India is one of the most important laws. However, it has never been given any importance. Cyber law of India is incorporated in information technology act, 2000 (IT Act, 2000) that was amended in 2008. However, the cyber law of India has been decayed to such an extent that it needs an urgent repeal.India urgently needs some good technology related laws. For instance, we do not have

Catherine Fernandeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13220079467296756100noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6128680978702650857.post-73123417624491643812011-02-16T03:58:00.000-08:002011-02-16T04:02:45.331-08:00

Google’s search algorithm has improved to a considerable extent and it shows results that are difficult to find in other search engines like Yahoo, Bing and DuckDuckGo. However, Google’s web indexing has been affected badly due to these recent changes.Previously, Google has to take care of a bug in its indexing mechanism that showed different and incorrect results. While the bug has been remedied

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Finally, the Supreme Court of India took a serious note of the growing and blatant incidences of privacy violation in India by Indian government and private individuals/companies supported by it.Supreme Court went upto the extent of saying that no person living in India is safe from privacy violations and omnipresent forgeries prevalent in India. The observation came while hearing a petition

Ram. K. Kaushikhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01598123484622350541noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6128680978702650857.post-30989763352563938612011-02-11T03:50:00.000-08:002011-02-11T03:53:40.451-08:00

Cyber law is an important legislation these days. With active use of information technology in almost every aspect of our daily lives, there is an inescapable requirement to regulate our online behaviours.An ideal cyber law must regulate illegal and unlawful activities while giving maximum leverage to legitimate and legal dealings. Indian cyber law is doing the opposite. While it encourages cyber

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The idea of mobile banking in India is not new and rather it is one of the most progressive and promising initiative. However, like all other projects and initiatives of India, even mobile banking is not free from troubles.The present banking and other technology related legal frameworks are not conducive for mobile banking in India. We do not have a well developed e-governance infrastructure in

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Cloud computing is a profitable business model, especially in India. This is the reason why it has been literally imposed upon Indian netizens without telling them of the dangers of the same.India has a weak cyber law, ineffective cyber security and lack of privacy, data protection and data security laws. In other words, cloud computing is a perfect breading ground for cyber criminals of India

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The time limit to provide encryption keys of enterprise services of Blackberry has already expired. Research in motion (RIM), the company managing Blackberry services, is still maintaining that it has no control over the encryption keys residing at the sets of users.However, Indian government is not accepting this argument of Blackberry and is still asking for the keys. Since the deadline is

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Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) has once again let down Indian mobile users by extending the date of telemarketing regulations till 1st March, 2011. It seems the telemarketing lobby would never allow regulation of telemarketing calls and messages in India.TRAI first adopted the defective do not call registry instead of do call registry. Now it is shying away from imposing a ban upon

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National security should be strengthened by technology and not threatened by it. In fact, technology seldom threatens national security but only strengthens it. Still governments all over the world are trying to make technology a villain and are using the façade of national security to suppress it.Recently, Google, Skype and Blackberry were in news for their encryption technologies. Google was

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Information and communication technology (ICT) has been improving the lives of millions all over the world. ICT can be used for multi purposes through the mode of e-governance. E-governance can reduce the hassles that ordinary man has to undergo in India.Anybody familiar with the Indian legal and judicial system would tell you that it horrifying in nature. A common man dares not to engage in

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Internet kill switch (IKS) has been in controversies for long. Legislative exercise to allow President of America to use the IKS in cases of national emergencies has started once again. The crucial question that arises at this time is whether IKS is a solution to growing cyber threats like cyber espionage, cyber warfare and cyber terrorism?Some experts claim concept of IKS does not exist at all

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