Cyber Law Awareness among Youth of Malappuram District
K S Sukanya, Raju C V. · IOSR Journal of Humanities and Social Science · 2017
World becomes more digitally sophisticated with the present technological environment.Being a part of e-world, we depend upon internet for various purposes.Earlier, internet was used for research and communication purposes alone.Today, it got extension into the fields like e-business, e-commerce and egovernance.The increased reliance on cyber space has paved way for a rapid growth in cyber-crimes.As the cyber-crime rate is on the rise, the need for cyber laws and its applications gather great momentum.Considering the case of India, Information Technology Act introduced in 2000 in order to deal with issues related to cyber space.This paper tries to find out awareness of Information Technology Act, 2000 among the youth of Malappuram district in Kerala.The paper is entitled as "Cyber Law Awareness among Youth of Malappuram District".Researchers also investigate youth's awareness on various sections in IT act, familiarity with cybercrimes, cyber-crimes offenders and victimized youth in Malappuram and security measures that they take in cyber space.Questionnaire survey was devised among the respondents who were selected using stratified random sampling.The study found that youth of Malappuram have a basic level of understanding on Information Technology Act, 2000 in India.