Cyber crime- Case1

Email Password Security & Legal Issues
A recent FIR registered with Delhi Police, points how a weak password can sometimes lead to loss of business profits.in this case hacker has contaminated the compliant's system with virus,actuly this person hacked complainant's all personal and busness information and then send email to all his customer and has attempted to contact with his customer and then preaper complainant's client list and send e-mail to them with the name of complainant.and communicate with them and received their communication with intention of deceive. The complaint has made out the case under the various provisions of IT Act, IPC and Copyright Act.Hacking is punishable under Sec 66 of Information Technology Act, with imprisonment for a term which may extend to three years or with fine which may extend to five lakh rupees or with both.
my comment:nowadays cybercrime and hacking is a common fact that we have to be more care about our passwords and make very strong and sequer password.

source:http://www.cyberlawtimes.com/2010/03/07/email-password-cracking-hacking-legal-issues/

Cyber crime- Case2

Software expert tried to take revenge against a women, who turned down his marriage proposal, falls into cyber crime cell net. Engineer had put obscene profiles of the victim on various networking sites like Facebook and Orkut and also sent letter through post containing morphed pictures of the girl, with written message in Telgu, which formed the basic evidence and led to his arrest by Hyderabad Police

cybercrime- Definition

Computer crime or cybercrime refers to any crime that involves a computer and a network, where the computers may or may not have played an instrumental part in the commission of the crime. Issues surrounding this type of crime have become high-profile, particularly those surrounding hacking, copyright infringement, child porn, and child grooming.

Privacy- Case1

workplace privacy

Michael A. Smyth v. The Pillsbury Company

source:http://www.internetlibrary.com/cases/lib_case129.cfm

in this case the employer found an email of an employee whereby called his employers"backstabbing bastards"and after that the employee was sacked.
the fact is that, the District Court dismissed the wrongful discharge claim brought by plaintiff, an at-will employee, against his employer. The court reached this conclusion notwithstanding accepting as true, for the purposes of the motion, the following allegations advanced by plaintiff:
defendant employer promised that it would neither read employee e-mail, nor terminate or reprimand an employee based on the content of such e-mail; and
in breach of this commitment, defendant intercepted plaintiff's e-mail, and discharged him because defendant found its content inappropriate and unprofessional.
The court rejected plaintiff's contentions that such conduct constituted an invasion of plaintiff's privacy under Pennsylvania law. Reasoned the Court: "[W]e do not find a reasonable expectation of privacy in e-mail communications voluntarily made by an employee to his supervisor over the company e-mail system notwithstanding any assurances that such communications would not be intercepted by management. Once plaintiff communicated the alleged unprofessional comments to a second person (his supervisor) over an e-mail system which was apparently utilized by the entire company, any reasonable expectation of privacy was lost. Significantly, the defendant did not require plaintiff, as in the case of an urinalysis or personal property search, to disclose any personal information about himself. Rather, plaintiff voluntarily communicated the alleged unprofessional comments over the company e-mail system. We find no privacy interests in such communications. ... [W]e do not find that a reasonable person would consider the defendant's interception of these communications to be a substantial and highly offensive invasion of his privacy. Again, we note that by intercepting such communications, the company is not, as in the case of urinalysis or personal property searches, requiring the employee to disclose any personal information about himself or invading the employee's person or personal effects. Moreover, the company's interest in preventing inappropriate and unprofessional comments or even illegal activity over its e-mail system outweighs any privacy interest the employee may have in those comments."
The full text of the decision discussed above can be found on a website maintained by David Loundy

my comment : the employee has no right to expect right of privacy at the workplace even where the employers have assured that the employee can have such a right.

Privacy- Definition

According to Oxford Advanced leader's Dictionary "privacy means freedom from interference or public attention ".Privacy also mieans keeping one's personal information or involvement secret or right to be left alone.under common law every citizen has right to privacy and he can keep his personal information private.others may not have a right to interfere with his personal information or to bring that information to the public attention.
it is includes three components:Secrecy,Anonymity,Solitude.actually privacy can be defined as workplace privacy and consumer privacy.potential for abuse privacy in workplace are e-mail,networks&internet and voice mail.

Introduction about Cyber Law

Cyberlaw is a term that encapsulates the legal issues related to use of communicative, transactional , and distributive aspects of networked information devices and technologies. It is less a distinct field of law in the way that property or contract are, as it is a domain covering many areas of law and regulation. Some leading topics include intellectual property, privacy, freedom of expression, and jurisdiction