E-Commerce To Be Out of Tax Net in this Budget?
It appears that the Finance ministry has decided for the time being to keep
E-Commerce transactions out of the Income tax purview, as per a report appearing
in Business Line today.
Details in Business Line
Drug Peddling on Internet in Chennai ?
Naavi.com has been highlighting the various community crimes being perpetrated
in India through Spam mails. Here is an example of another mail.
Read the Details Here
Thailand Passes Electronic Transactions Law
Thailand has joined the band of countries which have passed laws to regulate
Internet Commerce on the lines of the Indian ITA-2000 and the UNCITRAL Model
law.
Read Here For More Details.
TN Police Step Up Cyber Crime Training
The Police Training College in Chennai has taken up an ambitious project to
train 500 senior police officers in Tamil Nadu on Cyber crimes. The center
launched the first of a series of programmes planned for this purpose on 21st
January, 2002.
Naavi's Cyber Law College has structured the programme on the lines recommended
by CBI and is coordinating the three week programme. Several speakers from the
Industry and Academia are participating in the programme. Naavi will be
the principal faculty for the programme.
Action Required to Stop Objectionable E-Mails
Further to the call for war on Cyber Pornography, Naavi presents an actual case
where an action can be initiated against a Chinese domain for facilitating
distribution of Obscene e-mails in violation of Section 67 of the ITA-2000.
Comments and support is solicited from all.
Details can be found here.
Naavi
January 19, 2002
Simplicity Marks Pakistan's Proposed IT Law
India entered the Cyber Law
regime when the ITA-2000 was passed with effect from October 17, 2000. At that
time India was supposed to be the 16th country in the world to have passed the
law of that nature. Since then many more countries have passed similar
legislation.
In this context, it is
interesting to observe the draft legislation on Electronic
Communication formulated by Pakistan.
Detailed Article Here
Nuisance E-Mails Need To be Stopped
World over, the popularity of Internet
is closely linked to its use as an e-mail communication medium. If
Internet usage has to grow and E-Commerce has to develop, it is
necessary for the community to promote e-mail usage and protect it
from being misused in a manner which would dissuade genuine users
from taking onto e-mail usage.
What should be done in this regard?..A
New Anti Spam Law?.. Action by ISP s? Should Cyber War on Pornography
be extended to Porn site invitations through e-mails?..
Detailed Article from
Naavi Here
Can an ISP take Law into their own hands?
With the growing popularity of the
Internet, the business of being an ISP is becoming more and more
onerous. ISP s in India today are covered by the
Consumer Protection Act and are liable to compensate the consumer for
any loss or damage suffered by them.
One of the recent examples of such an
attitude is the arbitrary manner in which some ISP s (eg: Dishnet
DSL, Chennai) have decided to tackle the problem of virus in the
mails...Recently the ISP seems to have introduced a
content filtering system which filters out the e-mails that are
suspected to contain viruses.
Is it the right move?
Is Dishnet taking law into their own hands?...
Detailed Article Here
Computer
Crimes
Double This Year
In a recent study by cert.org, it has
been observed that the number of computer security breach incidents
reported during the year 2001 at 52,678 was more than double the
21,756 reported in the previous year. ...Doubling of crime graph year
after year is a matter of great concern to the law enforcement
authorities in India who are making all efforts to acquire the
necessary skills to tackle Cyber crimes....
In the mean time, one good fall out of the crime is that there is an
all-round awareness that Cyber Crimes are here to stay and the Police
have to develop the necessary skills to tackle the growing
menace....Naavi.com is happy that Cyber Law College is
associated in this effort...
Detailed Article Here
Creating More
Domain Name Disputes ???
Domain names and the exclusive rights
that go with it have been a source of dispute world over for quite
some time.....In a further move to enrich the registrar community,
VeriSign Inc., which operates the global ".com" Internet domain,
proposed the creation of an Internet address "Wait List Service"
(WLS) that electronic speculators could use to reregister .com
addresses that are scheduled to lapse....the new scheme may be an
invitation for legal action for every registrant. For most of the
registrants, it is not worth the risk.
Read the Detailed Article
Here
Pornography and Obscenity Needs to be
Distinguished
'Pornography' is not the core
issue of the area of conflict. But the area of conflict, is quite
different. The issue is the lack of proper yardstick to weigh the
intensity and severity of Pornography as an offence.
Advocate P.A.S. Pati analyses the Pornography related laws in
India...
Detailed Article Here
Declare a War on Cyber Pornography!!
The now famous Dr L Prakash (Chennai based orthopaedician not to be
confused with a well-known Sexologist in Mumbai) case of Cyber
Pornography has evoked interesting debated on the impact of such
crimes on the society and measures that can be initiated to prevent
them in future.
Here is
a brief view point from Naavi.
Internet comes for More regulation
Consequent to the growing terrorism in India and the use of
Internet by terrorists, Indian Government has tightened its
regulations on the use of Internet as well as STD/ISD facilities from
public places in Jammu and Kashmir.
Naavi.com hopes that these
measures would be temporary and urges the public to be vigilant
against its misuse.
Detailed
Article Here
The Year That Was!
The year 2001 was an important year in the evolution of Cyber Laws in India. If 2000 was
the year of legislation of ITA-2000, this was the year of its implementation. A brief review of
the happenings during the year is recounted by naavi here...
