NEW DELHI: To check cyber crimes like publishing sexually explicit material in electronic form, government on Friday introduced a Bill in Lok Sabha to amend the IT Act to enable service providers to set up and maintain e-signature facilities.
The Information Technology (Amendment) Bill, piloted by minister of state for communications Shakeel Ahmed, said a rapid increase in the use of computer and internet has given rise to new forms of crimes like sexually explicit material in electronic form and video voyeurism.
Growing of breach of confidentiality, data leakage, e-commerce frauds, identity theft and offensive messages through communication services now require the inclusion of penal provisions in the IT Act, IPC, Indian Evidence Act and CrPC to prevent such crimes, Ahmad said.
Ahmad said since digital signatures are linked to a specific technology under the existing provisions of the IT Act, it had become necessary to provide for alternate technology of electronic signatures. This step was aimed at bringing harmonisation with the Model Law on electronic signatures adopted by the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law in 2001.
The UN General Assembly in December that year recommended that all States accord favourable consideration to this Model Law. To prevent data theft, a problem that plagues BPO's, the Bill proposes a new section to ensure security procedures and practices by any firm handling sensitive data.
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16 Dec, 2006 l 0124 hrs ISTlTIMES NEWS NETWORK
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