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Monday, January 11, 2010

Ethics of the computer and international cyber law

computer being a powerful machine ,it has a great working capabilities .To maintain the computer capabilities every user has to follow the computer ethics .Computer ethics is defined as"to follow the rules and regulation of computer technology and not to harm other computer users knowingly or unknowingly".For the security of the computer system own should create digital signature or password of the internet .The rules and regulation are as follows:
you should not use a computer to harm other people .
you should not search the files or records of other people .
you should not destroy ,steal and use the computer passwords of other people .
you should not destroy ,steal and use digital signature .
you should not spread false and illegal information.
INTERNATIONAL CYB ER LAW
At the begining of information technology for the first time in the world there was not any law to control it .But in the course of time many problem and cyber crime appear in the world .For the controlling and ammendent of these evils and cyber crime people realized the need of law according to the time.Due to the rapid progress of the world in the field of information technology,it was not easy to put any laws about it .At first USA started making the laws .such as fair credut reporting act which was put in 1970.This law has made provision of the right to see own credit records without paying .After this USA statae the law of freedom of the information act which provided right to the public to see the information .After that in 1974 law of federal privacy was made .This right provided to the state to see the records of individual if wished .After that in 1992 copyright act was made which is made to stop authorized copy .This law made a penalty for the haker in 5 years in custody and a fine of US$ 250000.

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