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You’re Job as a WhatsApp Admin Can Be a Risky Affair …

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Starting a whatsApp or a Facebook group is as easy as sending a virtual text but being the Admin of your group can be really risky now. As per a recent joint order issued by the Varanasi District Magistrate, Yogeshwar Ram Mishra and the Senior Superintend of Police, Nitin Tiwari, the Group Admin is all likely to be held responsible by the court of law and can even face prosecution charges for all the fake news, morphed photographs and concocted and disturbing videos that may trigger communal riots, which are posted within the group by group members. As per the verdict, the group admin should undertake the role of the virtual administrator very seriously and for the breach of the admin duties, he/she is likely to pay a heavy price. The duties of the group admin include: ·          The admin should add only those people who he/she knows personally. ·          If any group member posts any posts any f...

CYBER CRIMES

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Cyber-crime in all of its forms is one of the fastest growing areas of criminality. More and more criminals are exploiting the speed; convenience and anonymity that modern technologies offer to commit a diverse range of crimes, including attacks against computer data and systems, identity theft, the distribution of child sexual abuse images, and Internet auction fraud. The global nature of the Internet allows criminals to commit almost any illegal activity any wherein the world, which makes it essential for all countries to adapt their domestic offline controls to cover crimes carried out in cyberspace. It is a criminal activity committed on the internet. This is a broad term that describes everything from electronic cracking to denial of service attacks that cause electronic commerce sites to lose money. The following working definition has increasingly been accepted by Canadian law enforcement agencies: “a criminal offence involving a computer as the object of the crim...