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
Often abbreviated as IC3, the Internet Crime Complaint Center was established as a joint venture between the National White Collar Crime Center (NW3C), the Federal Bureau Of Investigation (FBI) and the Bureau Of Justice Assistance (BJA). IC3 was formerly known as the Internet Fraud Complaint Center. This multi-agency task force was renamed in October 2003 to reflect the characteristics of the criminal matters having cyber nexus.
IC3 was established as a medium to receive criminal complaints which are associated with the internet and to further research, develop. It was also meant to refer the cyber criminal complaints to local, state, federal or international law enforcement and regulatory agencies for the investigation.
The mission of Internet Crime Complaint Center to address crime committed over the internet. It receives, develops as well as refers criminal complaints regarding the rapidly growing area of cyber crime. For the people or businesses who have suffered some loss as a result of cyber crime, IC3 provides an easy and convenient way to alert the authorities of a suspected violation or criminal. For the regulatory agencies and law enforcement at local, state, federal as well as international level, it provides a mechanism for cyber crime related complaints.
Are your text, video, photos, music, software or other material posted somewhere online without your permission? If so, don’t worry, you are not alone. The copycats on the internet are running rampant. Fortunately, there is a law called as Digital Millennium Copyright Act which provides you a means for resolving the internet copyright infringement issues. DMCA (Digital Millennium Copyright Act) is a boon for the artists and photographers working digitally.
Digital Millennium Copyright Act, often called as DMCA, is a United States copyright law which was enacted in 1998 as an amendment to the Copyright Act. This act was passed to address certain copyright issues that were becoming prominent due to the growth of internet and digital information. Divided into five “titles,” the DMCA is a complex act that addresses a number of copyright related issues.
DMCA addresses rights as well as obligations of the owners of copyrighted information who believe that their rights under US Copyright Law have been infringed on the internet. It also address the obligations and rights of ISP/OSP (Internet Service Providers) on whose networks or servers the infringing material may be found. Continue reading
Data retention, especially the retention of electronic data or information has become a hot topic in legal and business industry. In today’s business world, the companies are creating and storing the electronic data at light speed. A data retention policy provides for the systematic review, the retention as well as destruction of data received or created in the course of business. Data retention policies are also called as document retention policies.
Data retention defines the polices of persistent data and records management for the legal as well as business data archival requirements. Data retention policies are nothing but useful documents that deal with the complicated issues of maintaining corporate information for a pre-defined length of time. Usually, data retention policies describe the procedures for achieving the information and the guidelines for destroying the information.
Internet is a new medium which has changed the human perceptions, visions as well as behavior. It has demolished all the national boundaries and has made the world a big family. With each passing day, the new horizons of cyber world are being discovered as well as explored. Today, the cyberlaw is stage of infancy and is being developed constantly. So, in the present world it has become necessary to have legal mechanisms for governing cyberspace.
The Cyberlaw Association or Computer Law Association is a non-profit association which was formed in 1973 to encourage the growth of cyberlaw in different jurisdictions. The association was mainly established to fill the need for mutual education by the lawyers associated with the legal considerations related to production, evolution, marketing and the use of computer communication technology. The Cyberlaw Association aims at contributing the evolving cyber legal jurisprudence and emerging legal issues pertaining to Internet, World Wide Web and the Cyberspace.
