Beijing's Internet watchdog has accused 12 dating websites of being a cover for prostitution and has ordered them to clean up their act by next Friday.
"The outrageous pimping content in some websites is very shocking," said a statement of the Beijing Online News and Information Panel, an Internet watchdog made up by government officials, experts and representatives of netizens.
more @ http://english.people.com.cn/200705/28/eng20070528_378417.html
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Tuesday, June 5, 2007
12 dating websites rebuked for promoting sex trade
Web frauds target women - Cyber crime wing flooded with complaints
The popularity of online social networks has come at a price. Last month, 35 young women lodged complaints with the Lalbazar cyber crime wing about damaging profiles put up on the websites.
The complainants range from students to employees of reputed private firms. The profiles created without their knowledge contain photographs and personal details that can be viewed by other members of the network concerned. Most of the profiles also provide landline and cellphone numbers of the women.
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HC issues notice to center to block web contents
The Karnataka High Court on Wednesday issued notices to the Centre and some internet service providers on a public interest litigation seeking a direction to the government to take necessary steps to block web contents on the internet which "offended and denigrated Indian values".
Lack of Cyber laws nurture lovers' nest
Cybercafes in the city have turned out to be a safe haven for lovers as they provide a private space and cost less than restaurants.
In a random survey carried out by The Telegraph at five cyber cafes in Bistupur, Adityapur, Sakchi, Kadma and Sonari, about 25 youths said frequent police raids at Jubilee Park and Tata Steel Zoological Park have forced them to visit cafes with their partners.
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Wednesday, May 2, 2007
Cyber Law Newsletter - May 2007
Main Highlights:
1. Cyber Defamation Case Settled at Delhi
2. 'Cyber stalking' law proposed in US
3. Dirty words as bad as pictures, US court rules
4. Google AdWords Falls Victim to Cyber Criminals
5. Data collation can evade Data Protection Act, says Court of Appeal
6. Blogging code of conduct will infringe human rights law
7. Singapore passes New Anti-Spam Law
8. ICANN wins court order against rogue registrar
9. Virginia Tech gunman leaves cyber trail of massacre plot
10. AFP and Google sign deal on copyright
This month's newsletter can be picked up here... http://www.cyberlawtimes.com/newsletter.html
Wednesday, April 18, 2007
Pune Student held for posting girl's obsence profile on orkut
DASHMIT Singh Chawla alias Niki, one of the accused arrested in the rave party case and let out on bail was re-arrested on Tuesday by the Economic Offences Wing (EOW) and cyber-cell of the city police on charges of posting a lurid profile of a girl who had spurned his advances.
A few days ago, Dashmit had posted the profile of the girl after she refused his proposal, threatened her over phone for the same.
Later, a team of EOW officials picked up Chawla from his residence at Kondhwa and a complaint under section 67 of the Information Technology Act has been registered against him at the Hinjewadi police station.
DCP (EOW and cyber Cell) Sunil Phulari said: "Dashmit is a management student of a city college and hails from Raipur. He was trying to entice the girl for some time. He threatened her with dire consequences when she resisted his advances. Later, he posted an obscene profile of her on the Orkut portal along with her cell number."
Phulari added that Dashmit is a notorious character known for a flashy lifestyle and lavish cars. Meanwhile, the DCP (EOW) has appealed to the citizens to come forth and register their complaints in connection with cyber crimes either with the cyber cell at the city police commissionerate or call 26124452.
Link http://cities.expressindia.com/fullstory.php?newsid=228972
Online child pornography getting brutal
CHILD PORNOGRAPHY on the internet is becoming more brutal and graphic, and the number of images depicting violent abuse has risen fourfold since 2003, according to an internet watchdog report published on tuesday.
The British-based internet watch Foundation said in its annual review that it received nearly 32000 reports of potentially illegal content on its hot line last year; marking a 34 per cent increase from the previous year.
"Although there is a volume issue, the worrying issue is the severity and gravity of the images is increasing," said the foundation's chife executive, peter robbins. "We're talking about prepubescent children being raped."
The foundation identified about 10700 individual internet addressess on 3000 sites containing child pornography content.
About 80 per cent of the chilfdren in the abusive images are female, and 91 per cent appear to be children under the age of 12, it said.
more than three in five child pornography websites were hosted in the US, while nearly a third were based in Russia.
The US National Center for missing and exploited children last year completed a pilot programme in partnership with financial institutions aimed at cutting off child pornography websites' revenues.
They identified sites that accepted credit card payments, then contacted individual banks to stop the flow of money to the sites. the center also operates a child sexual abuse hotline.
More corporate frauds near the corner room
Profile of a Fraudster
36 per cent of fraudsters belong to the finance department.
60 per cent of fraudsters are members of top management.
15 per cent of fraudsters are women.
70 per cent of fraudsters belong to the 36-55 year age group
Tuesday, April 10, 2007
SOFTWARE TOOLS DEVELOPED BY C-DAC TO COMBAT CYBER CRIMES
On 6th march 2007
Resource Centre for Cyber Forensics, set up by the Department of Information Technology (DIT) at C-DAC, Thiruvananthapuram has developed “CyberCheck Suite Version 3.0” tools for cyber forensics. The indigenously developed software product was released by Shri Dayanidhi Maran, Minister of Communications & Information Technology, here today in the presence of Shri P.C. Haldar, Director Intelligence Bureau and senior officers of the Central Bureau of Investigation & Delhi Police besides the officers from DIT.
With this development, self-reliance in the technologies utilized for combating cyber crimes has been achieved. The tools developed by C-DAC have been very exhaustively evaluated by leading Law Enforcement Agencies in India like Directorate of Forensic Science Laboratories, Central Bureau of Investigation, National Police Academy and Intelligence Bureau. They have all certified that the indigenously developed tools of C-DAC are most appropriate for carrying out cyber forensics by all Law Enforcement Agencies in India.
Speaking on the occasion Shri Maran said that combating cyber crimes was very challenging and demanding with new technologies and new modus operandi keep cropping up. Therefore it has become imperative to keep the momentum going, he said. The Government is committed to eradicating cyber crimes and would do utmost to support new initiatives and developments for preventing the crimes. In order to deal with the cyber crime matters, the Minister said that a major training programme is proposed for training the law enforcement agencies, forensic labs and judiciary on the procedures and methodologies of collecting, analyzing and presenting the digital devices.
Monday, April 9, 2007
www.party-poopers.com
THE WORLD'S LARGEST AND MOST VIBRANT DEMOCRACY IS YET TO FULLY COMPREHEND THE POTENTIAL OF THE INTERNET IN INSPIRING AND ENGAGING THE VOTERS IN A SOCIAL DISCOURSE
INDIA HAS THE WORLD'S FOURTH LARGEST CYBER POPULATION, BUT ONLY 19 PERCENT OF ITS POLITICAL PARTIES HAVE AN ONLINE PRESENCE
Eye Spy
MMS returns And this time innocent shoppers are the target
Shoopers beware. Buzz has it that there is an eye on you even in those trial rooms. That is, if a recent MMS is to be believed. This 42-second MMS clip is of a girl supposedly in the changing room of a leading retail chain. The explicit footage shows her trying on a pair of troisers. The retail chain in question said that it was "investigating the matter and would take necessary action to address this issue".
When contacted ACP S D Mishra, of the Cyber Cell said he was unaware of this particular incident. "I don't think we've received any such complaints till now", said Mishra. What about the Punishment? so far as this case is concerned he says, "We can't tell you what action we're going to take till we see the clip".
Saturday, March 31, 2007
Law on Pornography!!!
Obscenity – personal viewing – Is it an offence
From a plain reading of Section 292 of the IPC it appears that if a person is in mere possession of the obscene material for his personal use without any intention to perform any of the purposes specified in section 292 (as stated above) it may not be an offence under section 292. In the case of Jagdish Chavla and others v/s the State of Rajasthan, 1999 CR LJ 2562 (Raj), the accused was caught viewing an obscene film on the television with the help of a VCR which along with the cassette was seized and a case under section 292 of the IPC was registered. The accused filed a petition in the High Court for quashing of the proceedings and it was held that simply being in possession of a blue film could not make a person guilty under section 292 unless it was further proved that the purpose of keeping the same was selling or letting it on hire. Therefore without proving the purpose of keeping the same no offence mentioned in section 292 was made out and the proceedings were quashed. The law therefore excludes from liability (under section 292) the mere possession of obscene material for ones own personal use without any intention to perform any of the purposes specified in section 292.
However, it would be prudent to be aware that a prosecution may lie for mere possession of obscene material also. It could be argued that a person, even though he is in mere possession of the obscene material which may be for his own personal use, actually aids and abets the publication, sale, hire, distribution etc of the obscene material, which is an offence under section 292. And under section 111 of the IPC, the abettor is held to be equally guilty of the offence which he has abetted provided it is proved that the offence is a probable consequence of the abetment.
Cyber Defamation!!!
This occurs when defamation takes place with the help of computers and / or the Internet. E.g. someone publishes defamatory matter about someone on a website or sends e-mails containing defamatory information to all of that person's friends.In a recent occurrence, Surekha (names of people have been changed), a young girl was about to be married to Suraj. She was really pleased because despite it being an arranged marriage, she had liked the boy. He had seemed to be open-minded and pleasant. Then, one day when she met Suraj, he looked worried and even a little upset. He was not really interested in talking to her. When asked he told her that, members of his family had been receiving e-mails that contained malicious things about Surekha's character. Some of them spoke of affairs, which she had had in the past. He told her 168 that, his parents were justifiably very upset and were also considering breaking off the engagement. Fortunately, Suraj was able to prevail upon his parents and the other elders of his house to approach the police instead of blindly believing what was contained in the mails.During investigation, it was revealed that the person sending those e-mails was none other than Surekha's stepfather. He had sent these e-mails so as to break up the marriage. The girl's marriage would have caused him to lose control of her property of which he was the guardian till she got married.
Friday, March 30, 2007
The Information Technology Amendment Bill, 2006
The Information Technology Amendment Bill, 2006 is available at the
www.manupatra.com webpage. (No Login Required)
Alternative download from the following link,
http://apargupta.googlepages.com/The20Information20Technology20Amendm.pdf
Cyber Spoofing!!!
A spoofed email is one that appears to originate from one source but actually has been sent from another source.
E.g. Pooja has an e-mail address pooja@yahoo.com. Her enemy, Sameer spoofs her e-mail and sends obscene messages to all her acquaintances. Since the e-mails appear to have originated from Pooja, her friends could take offence and relationships could be spoiled for life.
Email spoofing can also cause monetary damage. In an American case, a teenager made millions of dollars by spreading false information about certain companies whose shares he had short sold. This misinformation was spread by sending spoofed emails, purportedly from news agencies like Reuters, to share brokers and investors who were informed that the companies were doing very badly. Even after the truth came out the values of the shares did not go back to the earlier levels and thousands of investors lost a lot of money.
Cyber Pornography!!!
This would include pornographic websites; pornographic magazines produced using computers (to publish and print the material) and the Internet (to download and transmit pornographic pictures, photos, writings etc).
Recent Indian incidents revolving around cyber pornography include the Air Force Balbharati School case. A student of the Air Force Balbharati School, Delhi, was teased by all his classmates for having a pockmarked face. Tired of the cruel jokes, he decided to get back at his tormentors.
He scanned photographs of his classmates and teachers, morphed them with nude photographs and put them up on a website that he uploaded on to a free web hosting service. It was only after the father of one of the class girls featured on the website objected and lodged a complaint with the police that any action was taken.
In another incident, in Mumbai a Swiss couple would gather slum children and then would force them to appear for obscene photographs. They would then upload these photographs to websites specially designed for paedophiles. The Mumbai police arrested the couple for pornography.
Financial Crimes!!!
This would include cheating, credit card frauds, money laundering etc.
To cite a recent case, a website offered to sell Alphonso mangoes at a throwaway price. Distrusting such a transaction, very few people responded to or supplied the website with their credit card numbers. These people were actually sent the Alphonso mangoes.
The word about this website now spread like wildfire. Thousands of people from all over the country responded and ordered mangoes by providing their creditcard numbers. The owners of what was later proven to be a bogus website then fled taking the numerous credit card numbers and proceeded to spend huge amounts of money much to the chagrin of the card owners.
Types of Cyber Crimes!!!
Hi
1. Financial crimes
2. Cyber pornography
3. Sale of illegal articles
4. Online gambling
5. Intellectual Property crimes
6. Email spoofing
7. Forgery
8. Cyber Defamation
9. Cyber stalking
and many more ....
to know more about these crimes please ask!!!
Thursday, March 29, 2007
City gets cyber security research centre
Hello friends
Giving Information Technology an edge in the field of cyber security and research, the Chandigarh Administration, in collaboration with NASSCOM and Punjab Engineering College (PEC), has established India’s first Regional Cyber Security and Research Centre (RCSRC) on the premises of PEC.
This will serve as a nerve center for developing sophisticated technology to safeguarde IT data and also help curb cyber crime across the country.
more @ http://cities.expressindia.com/fullstory.php?newsid=227493
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