Privacy Law & India

Till late, privacy was governed by the consitution of India, considered as fundamental right guranteed by Article 21 of the Constitution of India and many precedents have been laid in this regard by Supreme Court of India. And it has also been included to some extent under section 43A Information Technology Act, which deals with sensitive personal data contained in a computer...

Draft Rules under Section 43A & Sec...

Ministry of Communications and Information Technology, Government of India have put up draft rules under section 43A and 79 of Information Technology Act, 2000 on its website: mit.gov.in for public comments by 28 February, 2011.Section 43A provides for compensation for failure to protect sensitive personal data by body corporates, who are expected to implement and maintain...

CVC goes electronic way to fight corrupt...

Chief Vigilance Commission through its project Vigilance Eye (Vigeye) has made it possible for registration through Web or Mobile for submission of complaints against corrupt government officials with evidence in the form of Photos, Videos or audio recordings. For web registration, one has to visit: http://www.vigeye.com/register_web_init.php And for mobile registration:...

CBI Website hacked by Pakistan Hackers

Pakistan Hackers (called “Pakistani Cyber Army”) hacked CBI website on Friday night warning Indian counterparts “Indian Cyber Army”, not to attack their websites. The case under various provisions of Information Technology Act has been registered but the website that is available at: http://cbi.nic.in was a PHP website, which hasn’t been restored yet,...

Viewing Porn – not a crime, rules ...

Justice Vijaya Kapse-Tahilramani of the Bombay high court on Wednesday quashed obscenity charges against top customs officers who were arrested following a police raid at a bungalow in Lonavla in 2008. Merely viewing an “obscene” film in the privacy of a house is not obscenity as defined under Indian criminal law, the court ruled. The customs officers were raided while...

Indian Computers: victim of Botnets

A recent study by Symantec shows that 50% of Mumbai Computers, 13% in Delhi and 7% in Hyderabad are infected with Botnets. The Botnets have capability to bring down not only the whole network but entire Internet of a geographical area. Read Story Here Botnets are computer programs, who automatically look for unsecured computers and start residing in it, by infecting various files and...