Hacking or creating virus started as a hobby. But today, it has becomes a full fledged organized crime. It is like a terrorism where an unauthorized group of people with vested interests creates a harms to the networks and computers of other people. They may enter a network and may steal data in an unauthorized way to sell it in the market and make money.
According to the many computer geeks, a virus that affect our computer system is generated by the companies who are there to market their anti-virus. This may be true for those unethical companies who want to make a fast buck and therefore find some unethical way to make money.
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Have you ever Google yourself and find something negative? It should worry you. Just a negative posting can cost you a job. That could be something you posted years ago, or posted by someone you know - or by even a perfect stranger.
With the popularity of social networking, many people are sharing their personal lives than ever before. No matter, you’re an avid internet user or not, your personal information is most likely online and could be paying someone else’s mortgage. Since, the social media has made our lives very transparent, the threats to your internet reputation grow by the day.
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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.
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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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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.
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
