Law of Information Technology

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Description
Technology has been defined as "systematic knowledge and action, usually of industrial processes but applicable to any recurrent activity". In providing tools and techniques for action, technology at once adds to and draws from a knowledge base in which theory and practice interact and compact. At its most general level technology may be regarded as definable specifiable way of doing anything. In other words, we may say a technology is a codified, communicable procedure for solving problems.
Technology, Manfred Kochen observed, impacts in three stages. First, it enables us to do what we are now doing, but better, faster and cheaper; second, it enables us to do what we cannot do now; and third, it changes our life styles.
Information technology is a recent and comprehensive term, which describes the whole range of processes for generation, storage, transmission, retrieval and processing of information. This edition of the book on Information Technology incorporates the major changes that have taken place in the field of information technology, including not only the latest trends but also future technologies. The coverage of practical and historic perspectives on information technology demonstrates how concepts are applied to real systems and shows their evolution since its beginnings.
In this edition, an attempt is made to make a thorough analysis and update of case laws which have emerged since publication of the last edition. In order to have a wider reach to available information, both reported and unreported judgements have been incorporated of various High Courts and Supreme Court.
The focus of this edition is on diverse case law beyond cyber crime domain, which has happened across different High Courts, National Consumer Redressal Commission and Cyber Appellate Tribunal.
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Table of Contents
Chapter 1. Introduction
Chapter 2. E - Commerce and Digital Signatures
Chapter 3. E - Governance and Information  Technology
Chapter 4. Communication of Electronic Message
Chapter 5. Security Procedures under Information Technology Act
Chapter 6. Certifying Authorities
Chapter 7. Digital Signature Certificate
Chapter 8. Duties of Subscriber
Chapter 9. Penalties and Adjudication
Chapter 10. Cyber Regulations Appellate Tribunal
Chapter 11. Offences under Information Technology Act
Chapter 12. Acts or Omissions against the Controller
Chapter 13. Computer Forensic and the Process of Confiscation
Chapter 14. Network Service Provider
Chapter 15. Power of Police Officers
Chapter 16. Miscellaneous Provisions
Chapter 17. Cyber Crime
Chapter 18. Encryption
Chapter 19. Quelling Cyber Crime Challenge in Information Age
Chapter 20. Cyberstalking, Cyber Harrasement and Cyber Bullying
Chapter 21. E - Commerce and Cyber Law
Chapter 22. Media Law on Internet
Chapter 23. Defamation on Internet
Chapter 24. Cyber Consumers
Chapter 25. Intellectual Property Law and Information Technology
Chapter 26. Cyber Terrorism
Chapter 27. Guidelines for Broadcasting
Chapter 28. Loopholes of Information Technology Act
Chapter 29. Global Trends in Cyber Law
Chapter 30. E - Crime Scenario
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Author Details
Dr, Ishita Chatterjee
LL.M., Ph.D. (Allahabad University) Assistant Professor, ICFAI Law School, ICFAI University, Tripura