NANOTECHNOLOGY AND CYBER CRIMINALISTICS

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  • Ratnesh Shah 5th Year Student of B.Com LLB, Institute of Law, Nirma University Author

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Abstract

Cybercrime is also known as a web crime; it is the use of a gadget (such as computer, smartphones, tablets, etc.) as a tool in using illegal acts. Committing fraud actions, Pornography, Child trafficking, stealing other peoples’ identity or it may be violating privacy, intellectual property and all other forms of illegal acts. 

Cyber criminalistics had developed fast over the months and years primarily through the use of the internet the computer has become the inside knowledge for entertainment. Commerce or even government because of the fast pacing adoption of the equipment and other gadgets of the people has caused so many cybercrimes. Cyber-crime involves a breach of contracts; it may be personal or corporate policies. Assaults on one's integrity and information, blackmailing also falls in cybercrimes. In the midst of lying transaction based acts such as fraud, human/ child trafficking, pornography falls in Cybercrime.  

Another type or form is the involvement or attempts or disrupting the actual acts over the internet. Including spam, fraud, service attacks, that is present on the web thus resulting in rapid growth of Cyber Criminalities. Cybercrimes can affect both the real body and the inner self. But it has a different effect on ones' personality. The most common cybercrime anywhere in the world is the identity theft. It is where someone copies the identity of the other. Copying the ID, e.g., Social Identification the most common identification that reproduced because the Social Security has long been identified as legal identification because it represents as tax identification id. Many institutions also use Social Identification to keep them tracked or connected to their employees. 

There is also the credit card information of ones' hard earned money most like to pay even if they did not do the purchasing themselves so as the big lending companies handling the credit card accounts are most likely to suffer from a very bulgy loss. Stolen or misplaced credit cards can be used by cybercriminals to steal ones' identity. These are examples of what cybercrime is all about. Nanotechnology is the branch of Technology that deals with dimensions and individual molecules and atoms. Criminalistics is another word for "forensic science," it is the scientific principles of pieces of evidence in criminal cases, it is an experimental technique to the crime. Thus, nanotechnology and cyber criminalistics is the study or detection, analysis, interpretation, identification, to recognize and identify physical evidence especially in criminal cases. Every detail from visible ones to the tiniest details that a one could get. 

Published

09-10-2017

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Ratnesh Shah. “NANOTECHNOLOGY AND CYBER CRIMINALISTICS”. Journal of Legal Studies & Research, vol. 3, no. 5, Oct. 2017, pp. 257-66, https://journal.thelawbrigade.com/jlsr/article/view/2024.