(Position before IT Amendment Bill 2008 was passed) Karnika Seth – Cyber lawyer & Consultant practicing in the Supreme Court of India and Delhi High Court At the outset, I must confess that it is an extremely challenging task to present a critique on the subject of Combating Cyber crime and law & enforcement in […]
COMMENTS OF KARNIKA SETH
ON THE AMENDMENTS PROPOSED BY INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY AMENDMENT BILL 2008 The Information Technology Amendment Bill 2008 was passed by the Lok Sabha and the Rajya Sabha in the last week of December 2008 and received the President’s assent on 5th February 2009. The Bill aims to make sweeping changes in the existing Indian cyber law […]
LIABILITY OF NETWORK SERVICE PROVIDERS IN CYBERSPACE
The Indian ITAct,2000 stipulates that Network service providers are not liable in certain cases, for any third party information or data made available by an ISP, if it proves that the offence was committed without his knowledge[1],, or that he had exercised all due diligence to prevent the commissioning of such offence [2]. A ‘network […]
PHISING-THE NEW ONLINE CYBERCRIME
Karnika Seth – Cyber lawyer & Consultant practicing in the Supreme Court of India and Delhi High Court THE MEANING OF PHISING In the cyber-world phising (also known as carding and spoofing) is a form of illegal act whereby fraudulently sensitive information is acquired, such as passwords and credit card details, by a person/entity masquerading […]
RACIAL CRIME AND HATE SPEECH ON THE INTERNET
By- Karnika Seth, Cyberlaw expert Hate speech is a term for speech intended to degrade, intimidate, or incite violence or prejudicial action against a person or group of people based on their race, gender, age, ethnicity, nationality, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity,disability, language ability, moral or political views, socioeconomic, class, occupation or appearance (such as […]
REGULATING THE CYBERSPACE
By Karnika Seth, Cyberlaw expert & Partner, Seth Associates Advocates & legal Consultants Can we regulate the internet? The unprecedented advent of Internet is challenging many existing models of Information society and forms of regulation. Internet is a global communication network and in its quintessence, beyond the national frontiers and does not fit into the […]
SPAM- NEED FOR AN EFFECTIVE LEGISLATION
By Karnika Seth, Chairperson, Lex Cyberia The term spam was first used in the early 1990s to describe e-mail messages, not related to the topic of discussion and postings that swamped newsgroups. Spam is frequently described as e-mail that is sent in bulk; flooding the Internet with copies of the same message and forcing these […]
WHAT IS SPOOFING ?
Spoofing is a practice whereby the user on the internet attempts to conceal its IP address to conceal its true identity. Many crackers steal databases of credit cards or other sensitive information[1]. The concept of IP spoofing, was initially discussed in academic circles in the 1980’s. While known about for sometime, it was primarily theoretical […]