Cyber Law (India) Program

Training/Coaching/Tuition by Asian School of Cyber Laws Pune, Mumbai, Panaji View Contact

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Learn: Cyber Law | Cyber Security | Cyber Crime | Ethical Hacking | Encryption | E Mail Crime | Malwares Protection

Category: Computer & Technology Law | IT Security and Ethical Hacking

Medium of instruction:

English

Who is this course for and what is it all about?

If you have an email account, a Facebook account, use the Internet (whether on your phone or laptop, whether at home or in the office or even a cyber café) in India, then you NEED this course. This course will teach you “practically” everything you need to know about the Indian cyber law.

 

Did you know?

• Two Air India cabin crew members were arrested and jailed for 12 days for posting “derogatory” remarks against the Prime Minister’s Office, the national flag and the Supreme Court, while commenting on a strike by Air India pilots. (India, May 2012).

• Ahmad Shuman was arrested for creating a Facebook page criticizing Lebanese President Michel Sleiman. (Beirut, July 2010).

• Two Americans (Vanessa Palm and Alexander Rust) holidaying in the Bahamas, were arrested after posting pictures of themselves eating iguanas. Iguanas are protected under the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora. (Bahamas)

• Farah Nur Arafah, an 18YyearYold was given a 75Yday suspended jail sentence for calling her friend a “promiscuous, overweight pig” on facebook. (Indonesia, February 2010)

• A student was fined under Canadian underage drinking laws when he posted photos of himself, holding a beer, on facebook. (Canada, November 2009)

• Vikas Mavhudzi was arrested for "subverting a constitutional government" when he posted a facebook message in support of the protests in Egypt. (Zimbabwe, April 2011)

• Ambikesh Mahapatra, a Chemistry professor at Jadavpur University, was arrested for forwarding a cartoon featuring the West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee. (April 2012, India)

• Ravi, a small scale industrialist in Puducherry was arrested for tweeting that "Karti Chidambaram (Union Finance Minister P Chidambaram's son) had amassed wealth more than that of Robert Vadra, sonYinYlaw of Congress President Sonia Gandhi". (October 2012, India)

 

Facebook Law in India

•  Is it legal to ridicule a Government official or Minister on Facebook?

•  Is it legal to ridicule a celebrity or even an ordinary person on Facebook?

•  Is it legal to ridicule a religion on Facebook?

•  I have ordered some things from a famous ecommerce website. They have not sent it even after a month. But my credit card has been charged for the transaction. If I post my complaint about this on my Facebook wall, can the company sue me?

•  Is there a level to which online criticism is allowed or can anything offensive land me in jail?

•  Is it permitted to create multiple accounts on Facebook?

•  Can I use my favourite celebrity’s name and open an account on Facebook?

•  Can I use a celebrity’s photo as my display picture?

•  Is it legal to open a Facebook account in a fake name?

•  How do I copyright my Facebook page?

•  Someone has tagged me in an offensive photo. Is that legal?

•  Is it legal to post obscene photos / videos on my wall or page?

•  Someone has posted an obscene photo of themselves on their own wall. Since that person is a “friend”, I can see that photo. Can I file a case against my “friend”?

•  Is it legal to use abusive language in posts?

• If I use asterisk marks instead of abusive words, can I still get into trouble?

•  What kind of posts can land me in prison?

•  Someone has sent me a threatening message on Facebook. Is that a crime?

•  As a joke, I have put a morphed photo of my friend on Facebook. She has taken it as a joke, but her father is very angry with this. Can he file a case against me?

•  Is it legal to send friend requests to citizens of “enemy” countries?

•  I have clicked a photo of my friends during a party at a pub. Some strangers can be seen smoking and drinking alcohol in the background. Is it legal to upload this photo on Facebook?

•  Is it legal to subscribe to somebody even if they have blocked you?

•  My friend has challenged me to “hack” his Facebook account. Is it legal for me to try to do this?

•  A photographer has published some nice photos on her Facebook page. Is it legal to post those on my own wall or even on my own page? Is it legal to download and print these photos?

•  I have heard that Facebook can track other websites that I visit. Is that true? Is that legal?

•  Someone has posted dirty pictures of my friend on a Facebook page. I have reported this to Facebook but they have not deleted the page. What do I do?

 

Porn Law in India

•  Is it legal to watch pornography on the Internet?

•  There is a website that pays couples for submitting videos of themselves having sex. Is it legal for a couple to submit a video to this site?

•  Is it legal to buy pornographic movies on DVD?

•  Is it legal to sell pornographic movies on DVD?

•  Is it legal to email a link of a porn movie, to a friend?

•  Does the Indian law forbid child pornography?

•  Does the Indian law forbid animal pornography?

•  Is it legal for a couple to video record their sexual act?

•  Is it legal to buy products, which have a nude photo on them e.g. a pack of condoms?

•  Is it legal to sell products, which have a nude photo on them e.g. a pack of condoms?

•  Jack is a citizen of a country where distributing porn is not illegal. While on a visit to India, he gifts some porn DVDs to Indian friends. Is that illegal?

•  Can we copyright a pornographic movie?

•  I have heard that selling a porn physical magazine is not as serious a crime as selling the scanned digital version of the magazine. Is that true?

 

Downloading stuff

•  Is it legal to download and use “cracked” software?

•  Is it legal to download and use free software for commercial purposes?

•  Is it legal to download free mp3 files of famous songs from the Internet?

•  Is it legal to download free recordings of TV shows from the Internet?

•  Is it legal to download free movies from the Internet?

•  I have bought mp3 versions of Hindi songs from flipkart. I use these on my personal iPod. Can I give a copy of these mp3 files to a friend or relative so that he can use it on his iPod?

•  I have bought the mp3 version of a Hindi song from flipkart. Can I make multiple copies of this file to use on all my devices – phone, iPod, and laptop?

•  I have bought an eBook from flipkart. Can I share it with my friends?

•  My friend has “gifted” me some movies? Is it legal for me to view them or store them on my computer?

•  Is it legal to download free scanned versions of commercially available books?

•  Can I download images from the Internet and use them on my website?

•  Can I download images from the Internet and use them in my school or college project?

•  Is it legal to copy an article from a website and use it in my own website?

•  Some websites allow me to listen to live streaming music. Is it legal to use these sites?

•  I have bought a DVD of my favorite movie and I don't like to carry the disc around. Can I “rip” it and keep it on my hard drive?

 

“Ethical” Hacking

•  Is it legal to teach someone “hacking”?

•  Is it legal to sell or distribute “hacking” software?

•  A company wants me to check the security of their networks by ethical hacking / penetration testing. Can I legally do it? What precautions should I take?

 

Wifi

•  Someone has hacked into my wifi and misused it. Am I legally liable?

•  I found this “open” wifi connection and I used it! Is that legal?

•  I heard someone saying their wifi password to a friend across the room, out loud. Is everyone who heard the password allowed to use the wifi?

 

Software and source code

•  How does the law define “source code”?

•  What stuff is illegal with regard to source code?

•  I have made a software program for my employer. Do I have the copyright in it?

•  I have "purchased" a software program. Do I have the copyright in it?

•  I have got some custom software developed. Do I have the copyright in it?

•  I use open source code, make some changes compile a new software. Can I sell this new software OR do I have to distribute it free of cost?

 

Trojans,viruses,worms and other malware

•  What are the types of malware covered by Indian law?

•  What if I accidentally email a virus or other malware to someone?

•  What if someone deliberately infects my computer with malware?

 

Email,sms

•  Is it illegal to send spam email or SMS?

•  Is it legal to open an email account under a fake name?

•  Is it legal to post obscene photos / videos on my wall or page?

•  What kind of emails can land me in prison?

•  Someone has sent me a threatening email. Is that a crime?

•  My friend has challenged me to “hack” his email account. Is it legal for me to try to do this?

 

Blogs

•  Is it illegal to blog using a fake name or a pseudonym?

•  What kind of blog posts can land me in prison?

•  A blog is my personal opinion. So is it legal to criticize a person, celebrity, company, country etc. in my blog?

•  Does all the content on my blog have to be written by me, or can I quote from newspapers and other blogs? Do I need to copyright my blogs? How?

•  Is a news website liable for the comments posted by others on its online news articles?

 

Key -loggers

•  Is it illegal to install a key-logger on someone else’s computer?

•  Can a company install a key logger to monitor their employees?

•  Can I use a key-logger to monitor my children's online activities?

•  Can I use a key-logger to monitor my husband’s / wife’s online activities?

•  Can I use a key-logger to monitor the online activities of my brother / sister?

•  I own a cyber cafe/ gaming zone. Though I own the computers in my cafe I’m renting them to people. Is it okay for me to install a key logger on these computers?

•  Can I deliberately give my key-logger enabled laptop to a friend to get his password? It's my laptop.

 

Cell phones

•  What is meant by “jail-breaking” a phone? Is it illegal to "jail-break" a phone?

•  Is it illegal to store pornographic videos or photos on a phone?

•  Is it illegal to store music on my phone?

•  Is it illegal to open a phone and customize its hardware to my liking? (changing the processor etc)

•  Is it illegal to add a hardware modification to a phone, like a circuit that makes the Apple logo behind my iPhone glow? Is it legal to do this for people and make money?

•  Can I take old unused phones, buy additional parts and make my own phone?

•  Is it legal to buy different brands of smart phones, open them up, combine the best hardware and sell “super phones” to people?

 

Courts and Evidence

•  How do I produce an email as evidence in court?

•  How do I produce a webpage as evidence in court?

•  How do I produce a Facebook post as evidence in court?

•  How do I produce an SMS as evidence in court?

•  How do I get call records from my phone's service provider?

•  Is it possible to get call records of my spouse's phone from his provider?

•  If I’ve seen intimate messages on my spouse's phone from another man / woman, what do I do to preserve it?

•  What if the webpage / Facebook post I was going to produce as evidence has been deleted? Can a screen shot be produced as evidence? What are the types of malware covered by the Indian law?

 

Police

•  Do the police need a warrant to arrest me if I violate cyber law?

•  Do the police need a warrant to search my house if I violate cyber law?

•  Do the police need a warrant to examine my computer?

•  Do the police need a warrant to examine my phone?

•  Do the police need a warrant to search flash drives and hard drives in my house?

•  Do the police need a warrant to search my car?

•  Can I be arrested for having pirated music / movies / software in my house?

 

Encryption

•  Is it illegal to use encryption in India?

•  Is it illegal to use steganography in India?

 

Hacking

•  I found this crack for an online gaming site. If I use it to get complete access, is that hacking?

•  What’s the punishment for using someone’s laptop without permission?

•  What’s the punishment for using someone’s email account without permission?

•  What’s the punishment for using someone’s Facebook account without permission?

•  What’s the punishment for using someone’s online banking account without permission? What are the types of malware covered by the Indian law?

 

Credit cards

•  Is it illegal if I use my father’s credit card for shopping at a mall?

•  My girlfriend gave me her credit card details and asked me to buy a gift for myself. A few days later we broke off our relationship and now she has filed a case against me claiming that I misused her credit card. What are my legal options?

•  What if I get held at gunpoint and I’m told to swipe my ATM card and withdraw cash, does entering the pin backwards really alert the cops? Or is that an elaborate online prank / rumor?

 

General

•  What is the name of the Indian cyber law? When did the Indian cyber law come into force?

•  Is a cyber crime more serious if it is committed against a woman / child?

•  Is it legal to buy a stolen cell phone or computer?

•  What is a digital signature and when do I need it? What happens if someone misuses my digital signature?

•  What is the difference between a criminal case and a civil case?

 

Cyber Crimes

•  What is the punishment for denial of service attacks?

•  What is Cyber Terrorism? Is it included in Indian cyber law? What is the punishment for it?

•  Someone has put a hidden camera in a changing room. What is the punishment for that?

•  What is the punishment for defacing a website? What if it is a Government website?

•  I have discovered a security flaw in an e-commerce website. The flaw can be misused to order stuff at a huge discount from the site. Am I legally liable if I disclose the flaw on a public forum?

•  Is it illegal to carry out packet sniffing at a public place like an airport? What if the sniffed data (passwords, credit card numbers, etc) are not misused?

•  What is the punishment for email scams?

•  Some foreign sites allow betting on football and cricket matches. Is that illegal?

•  Is it illegal to use proxy servers or anonymizer services?

 

Cyber Security

•  Cyber Smart Guide to online shopping

•  Cyber Smart Guide to wifi usage

•  Cyber Smart Guide to peerYtoYpeer usage

•  Cyber Smart Guide to passwords

•  Cyber Smart Guide to social networking

•  Cyber Smart Guide to tackling cyber bullying

 

What do I get when I pay the course fee?

1. You get amazing eBooks with accurate answers to the above mentioned questions

2. You get a bunch of cool challenges to test your knowledge.

3. You get an online certificate, in PDF form, once you crack the challenges. You can print this certificate to flaunt your knowledge.

I want more….

OK ?. We will give you 1 full year of free updates. That means you can login and download any new material (eBooks, cases, quizzes etc) for FREE for 1 year.

I still want more….

OK ?. How about we allow you to post your questions to us? And we answer them for FREE !! Just remember, the questions should be related to Indian cyber law. And, do give us a few days to post you an accurate answer. So, you actually get to contribute to the course too!

What if I still want more….

OK ?. What if we allow you to login and see answers to questions sent in by other users. For FREE. For 1 full year.

Can I have just a little more, please…..

OK ?. How about some awesome digital posters? And contests where you can win tons of goodies and freebies?

How can it be so cheap?

Asian School of Cyber Laws is a public charitable trust and society. We love doing stuff for you!

Any group deals?

Sure! We offer group deals (and discounts!!) for colleges, companies etc.

Sounds awesome,$how do I join thecourse?

 

Rohas Nagpal

Rohas Nagpal is a lawyer by qualification, a cyber crime investigator by profession, a hacker at heart and a programmer by passion.

He advises corporates, law firms, Governments and law enforcement agencies on issues relating to technology law, cyber crime investigation, information warfare and cyber terrorism. He has assisted the Government of India in drafting rules and regulations under the Information Technology Act. He is an active public speaker on technology issues and has addressed thousands of students, law enforcement personnel, lawyers and other professionals around the world.

Rohas conducts training programs in technology law and cyber crime investigation and has authored several books, papers and articles on these topics.

He has authored several books in digital forensic investigation, technology law and financial law. One of his

publications, the Cyber Crime Investigation Manual, has been referred to as a “bible for cyber crime investigators” by Times of India – the world’s largest selling English newspaper. He is also the author of the first ever Commentary on the Information Technology Act.

Papers authored by him include Internet Time Theft the Indian Law (Bangalore, 2001), Legislative

Approach to Digital Signatures (Ecuador, 2001), Indian Legal position on Cyber Terrorism, Encryption and preventive measures (on behalf of the Karnataka Police for Otto Schily, Interior Minister, Federal Republic of Germany), Defining Cyber Terrorism (Nagpur, 2002), The mathematics of terror (Nagpur, 2002) and Cyber Terrorism – A Global Perspective (Spain, 2002).

He has also co -authored an Internet Draft titled Biometric based Digital Signature scheme, which proposes a method of using biometrics to generate keys for use in digital signature creation and verification.

He was part of the team that developed the world’s smallest cyber crime investigation device, pCHIP a Portable Mega Investigation Forensic Solution. This device is capable of capturing volatile evidence from a live computer, has an easy to use interface, and provides detailed reports.

He is the founder of Cyber Attack, an open community working for cyber security. He also maintains a specialized search engine that tracks bugs and vulnerabilities in Microsoft® products. He isalso the founder of the proud Indian.me project and the Woman 2.0 Foundation.

He is a member of Information Systems Audit and Control Association (ISACA), International Association for Cryptologic Research (IACR), and a Sustaining Member of the Internet Society (ISOC), which is the organizational home of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), the Internet Architecture Board (IAB), the Internet Engineering Steering Group (IESG), and the Internet Research Task Force (IRTF) the standards setting and research arms of the Internet community.

In 1999, Rohas Nagpal co-founded Cyber Tribe which today is comprised of 10 organizations Y Asian School of Cyber Laws, TechJuris Law Consultants, ASCL Law School, Data64 Techno Solutions Pvt. Ltd., Republic of Cyberia, Association of Digital Forensic Investigators, Security Standards and Controls Development Organization, Corporate Crime Control Organization, Lexcode Regulatory Compliance Technologies Pvt. Ltd. and Data64 Technologies Pvt. Ltd.

 

The Cyber Crime Investigation Manual, authored by Rohas Nagpal, has been referred to as a “bible for cyber crime investigators” by Times of India – the world’s largest selling English newspaper.

He is also the author of the first ever Commentary on the InformationTechnology Act.!

 

 Cone of  Learning

At ASCL, we have integrated the principles of the cone of learning (proposed by Edgar Dale) into our teaching methods.

Student are said to retain 10% of all that they read. This retention is helped by our excellent courseware - written in a simple language and embedded with real world illustrations.

At the second level of retention, ASCL courses have contact classes built into the teaching structure.

The students listen to the teachers' lectures in which important issues are constantly highlighted by way of repetition and emphasis.

Contact classes rely heavily on multimedia presentations so that students can also retain information at the third level. This advantage is also passed on to digital mode students through clearly laid out images and diagrams embedded in the course ware.

Students remember 50% of what they see and hear simultaneously. We bring in this aspect of learning by way of demonstrations.

Our teachers explore various issues through live practical demonstrations and video clippings.

Even so, according to the cone of learning, these methods or learning are only the passive methods.

At ASCL, we have taken steps to involve our students more active retention methods.

Our expert faculty members focus their energies on the bottom layers of the cone.

Each class takes on the task of engaging the students' understanding through animated discussions or topic presentations.

The teachers play the difficult role of catalysts to these discussions.

Maximum information is retained when a student gets the opportunity to do the real thing.

The ability to do a particular task in real life (whether investigating a cyber crime or accurately filling in the details of a trademark application) is given top priority.

Students are called upon to participate in dramatic representations as well as carefully designed simulated case Studies.

 

We have implemented the principles of the Cone of Learning in all our educational programs.

Asian School of Cyber Laws (ASCL) in association with Data64 Techno Solutions Pvt. Ltd. (incubated by Science and Technology Park, a STEP promoted by Department of Science &

Technology, Government of India) conducts programs in:

+ Cyber Law

+ Cyber Law for Police Officers

+ Cyber Crime Prosecution & Defence

+ International Cyber Laws

+ Cyber Crime Investigator

+ Digital Evidence Analyst

+ Digital Forensic Investigator

+ IT Act Audit & Compliance

+ Cyber Security

+ Cyber Security, Audit & Compliance ASCL Law School (ALS) in association with Data64 Techno Solutions Pvt. Ltd. (incubated by Science and Technology Park, a STEP promoted by Department of Science & Technology, Government of India) conducts programs in:

+ Law of Corporate Mergers & Acquisitions

+ Securities & Investment Law

+ Law relating to Corporate Finance

+ Financial Law

+ Corporate Law

+ Business Laws

+ Intellectual Property Law

+ Financial Crime Examiner

 

Some of our achievements

ASCL Computer Crime & Abuse Report (India) is the only study of its kind quoted

by the United Nations in its E-commerce & Development Report (2003).

This third edition of the E-Commerce and Development Report, published by the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development, identifies some of the implications that the growth of the digital economy may have for developing countries.

 

Relevant extract from the report:

Studies based on reported security incidents assess internal threats as being as severe as external ones.

For example, the Asian School of Cyber Laws study Computer Crime and Abuse Report 2001–02 for India showed that over half of the reported incidents were traced to employees (21 per cent) or former employees (31 per cent).

In the end, the question of IT security at the firm level is much more a managerial problem than a technical one.

It has to do with how penetrable the enterprise wants its business processes to be and how risk management is integrated into those processes.

Management must decide what balance to strike between the benefits of open, collaborative business processes and the risks that greater exposure entails.

 

Federal Republic of Germany

We were invited to make a presentation on "Indian Legal Position on Cyber Terrorism, Encryption and Preventive Measures", on behalf of the Karnataka Police, for Otto Schily, Interior Minister, Federal Republic of Germany.

Extract from the letter of appreciation issued by Dr. P S Ramanujam, Director General of Police, Corps of Detectives, Training, Special Units & Economic Offences, Karnataka to Rohas Nagpal, President, Asian School of Cyber Laws.

We thank you for your kind presence on the occasion of the visit of high level German delegation headed by Shri Otto Schilly, Hon'ble Interior Minister of the Federal Republic of Germany to the Cyber Crime Police Station, Bangalore on October 30 2001.

The observations put forth by you on the Indian Legal position on Cyber terrorism, on encryption issues and the preventive measures that are available were highly appreciated by the delegation.

We thank you for your excellent presentation.

 

Malaysia

We have conducted training programs on Cyber Crime Investigation, Incident Response and Cyber Forensics for senior Government and Police officials from Malaysia.

Extract from an article in the Indian Express dated APRIL 30, 2004 titled Pune beats IT peers in fixing cyber crimes - From corporate America to Mauritius, there is a beeline to ASCL for training:

Bangalore may have taken the tag of India's Silicon Valley and Hyderabad would have rechristened itself as cyberabad, but when it comes to fixing the cyber crimes, Pune seems to have taken the lead over its illustrious peers.

Pune would not have made it to the global infotech map for its code - writing abilities, but when it comes to tackling cyber crimes, it is the preferred destination even for Corporate America.

For, the Asian School of Cyber Laws (ASCL) - an institution involved in education, training and consultancy in cyber laws and crime detection - has set up its base here.

Savour this: Last year, a team of Malaysian government officials undertook training in cyber laws and cyber crime investigation at this institution.

That is not all to it. Corporate America followed by its counterparts from the United Kingdom and Hong Kong have all been visiting the city to get trained at ASCL.

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