Digital India is a campaign launched by GOI to ensure that government services are made available to Indian citizens online. As Digital India encourages cashless payments, but still many people are not very familiar with cashless payments; they have fear in their mind of losing their money. The success of digital India project is depending upon maximum connectivity with minimum cyber security risks. Increasing Technological advancements result into increase in cyber crimes. India has cyber laws to protect the citizens from the growing cyber crimes. The present paper is based on both primary and secondary data. The objectives of the study are to understand growth of internet users in the world and in Asia, to study growing cyber crimes, to understand the opinion of practicing advocates regarding the provisions of existing cyber laws in India to tackle with the cyber crimes and to understand the shortcomings in the IT Act.
Internet, unauthorized access, cyber crime, cyber law, spam, hacking.
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