posted by on Sep 28
Many people on the internet are engaged in doing spamming and using private information of the users. All such things are online crimes and happen due leakage in privacy provided by the websites providing services and products to the internet users. In terms of convenient communication, WWW provides easy access which sometimes causes violation of the privacy policy and abuse of the private information of the internet users due to this freedom. Therefore, it is required that the internet users should be aware of the internet privacy law to protect their rights and their private information as well.
In order to promote limitation and discipline on WWW, it required for both the parties to respect the internet privacy law and to enact and exercise it to protect personal information of the users from being abused. According to the internet privacy law, all the internet service providers should keep certain information concerning their subscribers confidential unless they do ask to or give permission to disclose.
Some of the internet service providers share the personal information of their subscribers to third party for the purpose of direct marketing or compensation. To protect the subscribers from such abuses, internet privacy law states that the internet service providers should have free privacy policy for the subscribers in which they must state how they are going to protect the private data and information of their subscribers and should follow the rules very strictly for leaking of privacy policy is a punishable crime.