Ch 4Cyber Law — Class 11 Information Technology, concept-first.

Every time you send an email, pay a bill through an app, upload a photo, sign a form online, or shop on a website, you are creating and moving electronic records.

When commerce, communication, and record-keeping moved onto computers and the internet, a set of problems appeared that traditional law simply could not answer. Cyber law was created to solve them.

The Information Technology Act, 2000 is India's primary law on cyber matters. It received the President's assent on 9 June 2000 and is modelled on the UNCITRAL Model Law on Electronic Commerce (1996)…

The IT Act (as amended in 2008) lists the main computer-related offences and their penalties. Some provisions impose civil liability (payment of compensation to the victim), while others impose crimin…

A cyber crime is any unlawful act in which a computer, a computer network, or the internet is the tool, the target, or the scene of the crime.

Cyber security is the practice of protecting computers, networks, programs, and data from unauthorised access, attack, or damage. Its core goals are often summarised as the CIA triad:

Netiquette (a blend of network and etiquette) is the set of informal rules of polite, considerate behaviour when communicating over the internet — in emails, chats, forums, social media, and video cal…