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
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
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
You spend a great time, money and effort to create a website, don’t you? The traffic starts slowly and grow day by day. Your investment on the internet pays off and you get success. But suddenly you get an email from a customer where he says that he saw the same content and graphic of your website on the other website. After doing investigation, you come to know that another website has copied the portions of your website and displaying it to the world. No need to say that this copyright violation scenario can happen to you or me or with anyone. This is called as copyright infringement.
Copyright infringement occurs when someone, other than the copyright holder, copies, uses, distributes, sells or recreates another Continue reading
The Information Technology Laws mainly deal with the laws and regulations enforced for agreements and negotiations in the areas of software licensing and maintenance, e-commerce, IT-consulting, website hosting and development, data privacy, telecommunications, digitally transmitted information and elimination of paperwork.
The information technology laws cover almost all the criminal aspects of the misuse of Information Technology. Here is the overview of some information technology laws in United States.
Electronic Communications Privacy Act
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You must have heard about email laws. But what are these email laws? They are child protection registry laws of State of Utah and Michigan. These laws established Do Not Email registries into which institutions and individuals that primarily serve minors can enter minors’ email address or only to those email addresses to which they have access. These institutions or individuals can also register their entire domain names.
By these laws people are prohibited from sending the email to addresses that have been in the registries for 30 days or if the email contains the material that is illegal for minors. No matter, whether the email is solicited or unsolicited, then also you can’t send such email. Continue reading
