Cyber laws of India are 98% perfect says Government

Foolproof Cyber laws on par with global standards
Wednesday, June 08, 2005

BANGALORE: Cyber laws in India will soon be brought on par with global standards and made nearly foolproof.

A group of law firms in India, the U.S. and the UK, which was commissioned by the Nasscom to take close look at the cyber regulations in all the three countries and the kind of data security violations reported, has submitted its recommendations.

The objective of the exercise was to ascertain to what extent Indian cyber laws provided protection against cyber violations.

The comparative study found that all the four major Indian regulation like the Indian Penal Code, the IT Act, Contracts Act and Consumer Protection Act already addressed to 98 percent of all “committable” cyber crimes.

Nasscom has recommended to the ministry of information technology for a couple of amendments in the existing IT Act and IPC frameworks. Nasscom submitted its recommendation two weeks back to the ministry of IT, which is now expected to work with the ministry of law to make the required amendments in the IPC.

Nasscom has a problem of sorts at hand. Technology changes frequently and so do crime techniques and hence Nasscom has recommended the ministry of IT to set up an expert committee to review the IT Act on an annual basis.