Scope of Cyber Law

The rapid development of information technology represented certain difficulties for the law that are not restricted to a specific classification of law yet emerges arises in diverse areas of law, for example, criminal law, protected innovation law, agreement and tort. Generally, owing to the rapid development of the internet and the World Wide Web, different unprecedented problems have developed. These problems concern the issues of free speech, intellectual property, safety, equity, privacy, e-commerce and jurisdiction and these issues are governed by the Cyber Law. The part of law regulates the Technological aspects of data/information or data/information processing is called Cyber Law. The scope of various issues introduced by the advancement of technology includes:

• Dealing with computer hackers or the individuals who invent virus;
• Categorization of 'agreement for the acquisition of programming or software' on comparative balances with a contract dealing with goods;
• Dealing with the concept of mass consumer purchases from other jurisdictions under e-commerce;
• Existence of copyright in a computer programme and question of patent security;
• Question of the demolition of copyright due to the widespread dissemination of text on Networks;
• Regulation of ‘cybersquatting’ and trafficking in domain names under the law;
• The question of regulation of the content of material on the internet and freedom of information and expression; and
• The protection of the privacy of the individual amid the expanding limit for storing, gathering, and collating

The Information Technology Act, 2000 (IT Act) came into force on October 17, 2000, and further amended in the year 2008. The Act is divided into 13 chapters.

The IT Act, 2000 endeavours to change outdated laws and provide approaches to deal with cyber-crimes. The Act offers the necessary legitimate framework with the goal that data isn't denied lawful impact, legitimacy or enforceability, exclusively on the ground that it is in the type of electronic records.

The Act has also proposed a legitimate framework for the authentication and origin of electronic records/communications through digital signature.

From the perspective of e-commerce in India, the IT Act, 2000 and its provisions contain numerous positive angles. Firstly, these provisions for the e-businesses would imply that email would now be a legitimate and authoritative document of communication in our nation that can be duly produced and approved in a court of law. Organizations will currently have the option to do electronic business utilizing the legitimate infrastructure given by the Act. Digital signatures have been given legitimate validity and sanction in the Act. The Act currently permits the Government to give notice on the web in this way proclaiming e-governance.

The IT Act likewise addresses the significant issues of security, which are so critical for the accomplishment of electronic transaction. The Act has given a lawful definition to the idea of secure digital marks that would be required to have been passed through an arrangement of a security procedure, as specified by the Government at a later date. Under the IT Act, 2000, it will presently be feasible for corporate organizations to have a legal cure in case anyone breaks into their computer systems or network.