Digitalization and Law- Regulations, Implications, and Challenges

Cyber security and cyber crime

Author- Antra Azad

College- Chanakya National Law University

2nd year

With the rapid technological developments, our life is becoming more digitalized. Be it
business, education, shopping or banking transactions everything is on the cyber space. There
are some threats posed by this incredible rise in digitization which is creating a new set of
global concern called as cyber crime. It is easy to fall prey to such unethical way of hacking
and penetrating into personal life which is feasible at a click of a button. Cyber crimes
thereby take place in many forms like illegal access and theft of data, intrusion into devices
and fraud which is a big concern amongst all the users. This paper identifies the importance
of being acquainted with the effects of cyber crime keeping in mind the recent activities that
have taken place and offering solutions to protect oneself from it. Moreover, highlighting the
need of being cyber safe and how such illegal activities can be a problem for us.

There have been growing claims in media circles and law-enforcement settings that street
gangs and criminal groups are turning to Internet-based social networking sites for various
reasons ranging from the showcasing of their images and exploits to the suspected
recruitment of members. The present study investigates whether such a trend is, in fact, in
place. The presence of street gangs on these Internet sites is referred to as cyberbanging.
While there is some anecdotal evidence suggesting that gangs are turning to social
networking sites, there is little available research on exactly how street gangs and criminal
groups use the Internet. Main argument is that gang culture is in many ways an individualized
phenomenon and this feature ties in directly with recent assessments of the Internet as a
setting that is governed by a process of networked individualism. This theoretical link
between the individualized gang setting and the presence of gang members on social
networking sites helps us understand why recruitment is improbable even in a context where
people are openly diffusing their image and exploits to a growing number of Internet users.
The empirical segment of this research adds to this general outlook. Based on a keyword
search of over 50 street gang names, the three main social networking sites (Twitter,
Facebook, and MySpace) were monitored for street gang presence. Results illustrate that
gang presence on social networking sites is linked primarily to promoting a general gang or
street culture through individual displays.

Concrete measures must be found in order to track electronics evidence and preserve them so
that systems are better protected from cyber intrusions. Besides, new cyber laws and policies
must be developed by to tackle the various families of cyber crime. Even the companies need
to take appropriate measures to investigate and prevent their data.