Cybercrimes

Product Details: Format: Paperback Pages: 600 pages Publisher: Eastern Book Company Language: English ISBN: 9789350281062 Dimensions: 24 CM X 2.9 CM X 15.7 CM Shipping Weight: 0.75 Publisher Code: AB/106 The book comprehensively studies and explains the cyber legislations of, and judicial trends in India alongwith that of the UK and US. Further, it elaborates the unprecedented challenges faced by the legal fraternity, respecting jurisdictional and identity issues. The book also discusses the contributions of UN, European Union, G8 countries, the Council for Europe Convention, and the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) to tackle them. In many new areas, it suggests a suitable legal framework to combat cybercrimes in India. Inclusion of several national and international cases, articles, journals, and cybercrime statistics and graphs, makes the book an immensely useful reference. It covers current topics and challenges, such as, SMS-spoofing, hacking by Trojan Horse, Logic Bomb; threat to privacy by Cookies, Web bug, Veri-Chip, WoZNet Chip, spyware, and adware; and liability of intermediaries, ISPs, corporations and employers for violation of privacy, obscenity, theft and fraud, etc. Electronic signatures and the threats their misuse poses to the law enforcers have also been discussed. The book covers the following key statutes, among others: Indian Criminal Procedural Code, 1973Evidence Act, 1872Indian Penal Code, 1860Information Technology Act, 2000, as amended by the Information Technology Act, 2008 UK Computer Misuse Act, 1990Forgery and Counterfeiting Act, 1981Obscene Publications Act,1959Police and Criminal Evidence Act, 1984Regulation of Investigatory Power Act, 2000 US Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, 1986Digital Millennium Copyright Act, 1998Electronic Communications Privacy Act, 1986 The book will prove to be of immense use to the LL.B. and LL.M. students, legal fraternity, law-enforcers, academicians, researchers, and those preparing for competitive examinations.