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The Government of India will amend the Information Technology Act, 2000 to effectively deal with online data security, data privacy, identity theft, cyber terrorism, child pornography, Spam, phishing and other online frauds.
The amendment Bill, which has been pending for two years now, will finally be taken up by Parliament in the winter session that resumes next week, according to director-general in the Union Communications and Information Technology Ministry Gulshan Rai.
Rai said, “For the first time, we have tried to define cyber terrorism, child pornography, spam, phishing and online frauds. The amended legal framework will be in line with all the provisions of the European Cyber Convention.”
“Once in place, the new legal framework would address emerging issues in cyberspace,” he said.
The body corporates would have to implement best security practices to secure data collected by them while providing services and any leakage of data would result in payment of compensation to the victims.
Rai said they were working in co-operation with the Asia-Pacific Computer Emergency Response Team on cyber security initiatives. Besides, the Data Security Council of India has also been established as a government-industry initiative to create awareness and ensure compliance with the best security practices among IT and ITES organisations.
“The challenge is huge for us to train our police and judicial officers to collect, analyse and present digital evidence in courts. We are working in this direction under the public-private partnership model,” he said.
The Information Technology department was also working with public and private sector organisations to train manpower to deal with cyber security issues.
“We are also sending our people abroad for getting trained in implementation of best security practices,” he concluded. (PTI)
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