Role of Government, Advocacy and Awareness Group on Internet Privay

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Role of Government, Advocacy and Awareness Group on internet privay In order to protect the privacy and provide security from internet crime, the role of government and the society is very essential. Different awareness and advocacy group also can help in fighting and be safe from hi tech crime. Hi tech crime are computer crimes or cyber crimes. In order to discourage cyber crimes it is necessary from the government’s part to introduce tough laws. Laws governing the internet would be fundamentally different from laws geographic nations use. Internet defies geographical boundary so national laws cannot be applied globally. So it is suggested that the internet can be regulated as being its own trans-national “nation” with all the nations working together to create cyber-world free from cyber criminals. . It has been tried to be regulated by substantial law and regulations on both public and private at different levels. Internet law is in a process of development and represents a legal paradigm shift. The latest cybercrime law in Australia came into force on 1 March 2013, which is according to the legislative framework for accession to the Council of Europe Convention on Cybercrime (Kallenbach, P. 2013). It was enacted by amending the existing Commonwealth statutes, which are the Criminal Code Act 1995 (Cth), Mutual Assistance in Criminal Matters Act 1987 (Cth) and the Telecommunications Act 1997 (Cth). The function of the new law is to give more power to the Australia’s law enforcement and intelligence agencies. It can ask carriers to retain communication records of person suspected of cyber crimes. It also helps in international cooperation by cross-border sharing of records. Article 19 Universal Declaration of Human Rights lobbies for free expression in all media (Morsink, J. 1999). Paradoxically it raises question and legal complexities in freedom and

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