Rise Of Cybercrimes And Mass Surveillance As A Threat To Civilization: An Analysis

Abstract

The introduction of the internet, people have come up with ways to pervade it. As the information and communication sector develops, the cybercriminals are also developing ways of keeping pace with the new security measures. Since the internet is soon becoming one of the many necessities a person can’t stay without the criminals advancing the sector also to keep up with ever-changing technology. The criminals will find every loophole to sneak to your private information that has been stored in our PC or even in cloud storage as long the storage is connected to the internet. Cyber crime is defined as the act of creating, distributing, altering, stealing, misusing or destroying of information through the computer without the use of physical force and against the will of the victim. In this paper the author focused on different causes of cybercrime and different forms of cybercrime committed by criminals. It is very difficult to caught the cyber criminals in this 21st Century. The establishment of IT Act, 2000/2008 some how gives protection to the people like a piece of bread on the hand of a hungry man. So the author stressed for enacting a detailed legislation for reducing cybercrimes from our society.