For many people, going online really did feel like jumping onto the – information superhighway - and visiting the websites using chat rooms did feel like entering a new world and traveling around a new online world. In a very few days, the number of Internet users has sky-rocketed. Back to the 1990, less than 100,000 people were able to log on the the Internet. Today, around 500 million people are able to surf the Internet around the globe.
With each passing day, the Internet became integrated in human life with the physical world. As the range of Internet applications broadened and the users became more sophisticated, it became harder to see a user’s experience as it first seemed. Continue reading
By now, you must have heard that USDOJ has issued a subpoena to Twitter and is asking for various types of information about Julian Assange, Rop Gongrijp [sic], Bradley Manning and Birgitta Jonsdottir from their Twitter accounts. This subpoena was issued under the seal because of which Twitter could not tell about the subpoena to anyone. In this situation, Twitter could have just followed the subpoena and none of these people wouldn’t even have known about it.
Instead, what Twitter did is, it apparently made a motion to unseal the subpoena. Twitter had been standing to do this because the sealing of the subpoena infringed upon its own ability to interact with its subscribers or customers. Continue reading
An electronic signature is any electronic means which indicates that a person adopts the contents of an electronic message. It can be defined as an electronic symbol (e.g. graphic in JPEG file), sound (e.g. audio files) or process (e.g. a procedure that coveys assent) logically associated with or attached to a record, and executed by a person with the intent to sign the record. An electronic signature is very easy to implement. Consequently, e-signatures are very problematic when considered to maintaining security and integrity. There is nothing to prevent an individual from typing the name of another individual. Due to this, an electronic signature does not integrate additional measures of security that are considered as an insecure way of signing documentation. Continue reading
The Data Protection Act 1998 is an act of United Kingdom (UK) parliament, which defines the law on processing the data on identifiable living people. The purpose of Data Protection Act is to protect the rights of individual about whom the data is obtained, stored, supplied or processed rather than those organizations or people who use and control personal data. This act applies to both computerized as well as paper records. It applies to anything done to personal data such as use, collection, destruction, disclosure or merely holding data.
The Data Protection Act aims at promoting high standards in handling of personal information as well as to protect the individual’s right to privacy. Continue reading
Like every other area of our lives, internet is changing as well. Just few years ago, you were able to use the internet as you wanted, but this is not the case anymore. Since, the internet is drawing in more people daily, it is also drawing crime in. These crimes are called as cyber crimes.
Cyber crime is an unlawful act wherein the computer is used either as a tool or a target or both. There are different types of crimes on the internet that are done for different reasons. To prevent from these crimes and in response to absolutely complex and newly emerging issues related to cyberspace, the concept of Cyberlaw came into being. Continue reading
There is a long and nasty history of many people having their domain names stolen from under their nose. It is the worst thing for you that waking up one day finding your site has disappeared and someone else has owned it. And then the phone call in which you were told that it was nothing to do with the registrar and you had to do everything to sort it out yourself. The companies that you register your domain name with do not take any responsibility of it.
Although, all of that was supposed to be in the past, it is however still possible to steal your domain without your knowledge with minimum efforts. The registrars have a feature called a Domain Lock or a Registrar Lock that prevents the transfer of the domain to anyone unless that lock is removed. Continue reading
