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Importance of Cyber Laws in India

  • By Manish Manocha
  • Date Sep 09, 2019
  • Quotes19

Cyber Law touches almost all aspects of transactions and activities on the internet.

The activities happening on the internet make Cyberlaw important. Cyber Law touches almost all aspects of transactions and activities on the internet. Every activity in cyberspace has some legal and cyber legal perspective. The access to the internet is almost freely available to everyone. This makes the internet usage more frequent which gives rise to more crime on the internet and hence the Cyber Law is important aspect. Almost every transaction relating to online shopping, banking, bill payments, entertainment, etc. is happening on the internet. Most of the organisations are keeping their data on cloud and usage has started using digital signature widely. This usage of technology comes with a risk and disadvantage. These technical enhancement givers rise to high percentage of cyber crime. The increase in cyber crime due to this technology evolution makes the need for cyber law more important. Effective Cyber Law has allowed organisations to use technologies as mentioned below. - Digital signatures which are given legal validity and sanction. - The government can issue notification/s on the web. thus heralding e-governance. - Document/s and Forms can be uploaded on Government Sites in the prescribed format. - Usage and implementation of Cyber Security as per the guidelines and safeguard policies.