about IT act section 66

1. Chartered Institute of Technology
Abu Road
Provision of Amended IT Act.
(section 66)
Presented by:
Akash
Maheshwari

2. Aim :
Facilitating the use of electronics commerce.
For promoting efficient delivery of government
services by means of reliable electronics records.

3. What is Cyber Crime ?
Cyber crime refer to any crime that involves a
computer/mobile and a network. The computer may
have been used in the crime, or it may be the target.

5. Communication by way of electronics
message:
The act identify three parties to the electronics
transmission process:
i) originator(is a sender, the generator of electronics
message).
ii) intermediary(store and transmit or provide any
service with respect to the message.
iii)addressee(is the recipient of the message).

6. Computer related offence under 66:
dishonestly or fraudulently committing
contraventions under section 43 of the act if by any
person.
punishable with imprisonment for a term which may
extend to three years or with fine which may extend
to five lakh rupees or with both.

7. Sending offensive message through
communication service, under sec. 66A:
 sending information that is extremely offensive or
has menacing character;
 mailing false information to cause annoyance,
inconvenience, danger, obstruction, insult, injury,
criminal intimidation, enmity, hatred, or ill will
 Sending mail for the purpose of causing annoyance
or inconvenience or to deceive or to mislead the
addressee or recipient about the origin of such
messages
 punishable with imprisonment for a term which may
extend to three years and with fine.

8. Receiving stolen computer resource or
comm. Device, under sec. 66B :
under section 66B, whoever dishonestly received or
retains any stolen computer resource or
communication device knowing or having reason to
believe the same to be stolen computer resource or
communication device
punished with imprisonment of either description for
a term which may extend to three years or with fine
which may extend to rupees one lakh or with both.

9. Identity theft, under sec. 66C:
 fraudulently or dishonestly make use of the electronic
signature, password or any other unique identification
feature of any other person.
 punished with imprisonment for a term which may
extend to three years and with fine which may extend
to rupees one lakh.

10. Cheating by personation by using
computer resource, under sec. 66D :
communication device or computer resource cheats by
personation.
for a term which may extend to three years and shall
also be liable to fine which may extend to one lakh
rupees.

11. Violation of privacy , under
sec.66E :
intentionally or knowingly captures, publishes or
transmits the image of a private area of any person
without his or her consent, under circumstances violating
the privacy of that person.
punished with imprisonment which may extend to three
years or with fine not exceeding two lakh rupees, or
with both

12. Cyber terrorism, under sec. 66F :
 attempting to penetrate or access a computer
resource without authorization or exceeding
authorized access,
penetrates or accesses a computer resource
without authorization or exceeding authorized
access, and by means of such conduct obtains
access to information, data or computer database

13. punishable with imprisonment which may extend to
imprisonment for life.

14. Thank You