times the offenders commit crime and their identity is hard to be identified. Tracking cyber criminals requires a proper law enforcing agency through cyber border co-operation of governments, businesses and institutions of other countries. Most of the countries lack skilled law enforcement personnel to deal with computer and even broader Information technology related crimes. Usually law enforcement agencies also don’t take crimes serious, they have no importance of enforcement of cyber crimes, and even if they undertake to investigate they are posed with limitation of extra-territorial nature of crimes.
6. How Efficient Is Information Technology Act 2000?
It can’t be disputed that Information Technology Act, 2000 though provides certain kinds of protections but doesn’t cover all the spheres of the I.T where the protection must be provided. Copyright and trade mark violations do occur on the net but Copy Right Act 1976, or Trade Mark Act 1994 are silent on that which specifically deals with the issue. Therefore have no enforcement machinery to ensure the protection of domain names on net. Transmission of e-cash and transactions online are not given protection under Negotiable Instrument Act, 1881. Online privacy is not protected only Section 43 (penalty for damage to computer or computer system) and 72 (Breach of confidentiality or privacy) talks about it in some extent but doesn’t hinder the violations caused in the cyberspace.
Even the Internet Service Providers (ISP) who transmits some third party information without human intervention is not made liable under the Information Technology Act, 2000. One can easily take shelter under the exemption clause, if he proves that it was committed