Law Minister M Veerappa Moily has advocated for the enactment of separate laws and creation of a specialised agency to deal with the menace of cyber crimes. He said, amending the existing IT Act will not solve the problem.<br/><br/>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. He said several countries like United States and South Korea have created such agencies.<br/><br/>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. 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.
News On AIR | February 1, 2010 11:33 AM
Moily for separate laws to deal with cyber crimes