Noting the complex language of legislations on monitoring cyber space, a Parliamentary panel has criticised the government for not preparing a new set of laws and instead taking a “short cut route” of making changes in the existing norms.
“The law pertaining to IT should be self-containing and easily comprehensible to the global village community... Despite the experience gained in about seven years in the administration of the IT Law, no effort has been made to bring a new and exclusive legislation,” the Standing Committee on Information Technology said in a report.
Short-cut route
The government has taken a “short cut route” by making changes in existing legislation and relying on existing Acts, the panel said. The Committee observed that the term ‘cyber terrorism’ has not been defined anywhere in the IT Act, 2000 or in the proposed amendments.
Similarly, ‘child pornography’ has also not been mentioned anywhere in the section on pornography.