Law Minister M Veerpan Moily has advocated for the enactment of separate laws and creation of a specialised agency to deal with the menace of cyber crimes.<br/><br/>He said, amending the existing IT Act will not solve the problem. Launching the Cyber Law Enforcement Programme and National Consultation Meeting in the capital, he said, making laws only to deal with contingencies is not a desired thing as it may lead to curtailing the basic substantive rights of the entrepreneurs.<br/><br/>The Law Minister also lamented that the country lacked a specific enforcement agency to deal exclusively with cyber laws.<br/><br/>He said several countries like United States and South Korea have created such agencies. He also said that since challenges posed by cyber crime were new to India, the country did not have a collective skill of experts to deal with such situations.<br/><br/>He pointed that judicial officers also lacked training to deal with cases related to cyber crimes.<br/><br/>The minister pointed out that even the IT industry lacked self-regulation in areas of privacy and data collection.
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