Siddiq Hussain Khan Shah, LL.M (Criminal Law), School of Legal Studies, REVA University, Bangalore
CHAPTER -1: INTRODUCTION
Cyber law is the branch of law in which we cover the legal aspects of Cyber world. Cyber world is a very broad area which is evolving very fast. Hence, we need a dynamic framework to cope up with the evolving cyber space1. Most important aspect of Cyber law is it's unawareness among the internet users. They are using internet but are not aware of the laws which are binding on them. Though we follow the policy of no knowledge of law is not an excuse in the eyes of law but cyber law is something which is very much less known by the people's and the users of internet is increasing ever at a very fast pace.
Criminals use cyber space to gain access to personal information, to steal intellectual property from businesses and to gain knowledge of sensitive information for financial or political gains or for other evil purposes. Actually, the threat of cybercrime exponentially increases.2 According to Indian police statistics, cybercrime has outstripped drug trafficking as the most lucrative crime, with 70% of commercial crime cases classified as cybercrime. ICT dependency increases the number of Internet users every day, which also contributes greatly to the changes in India's cyber-threat landscape.
