Better Laws Needed

Better Laws Needed

From above articles, it really expressed and raised the concerns that better laws and ways of strengthen laws is needed to deal with identity theft and cybercrimes and identify some of the common techniques use in identity theft in Malaysia.

According to intellectual property lawyer Deepak Pillai, Malaysia's legal position does not address online identity theft directly.

So, Data Protection Bill since 1999 is badly needed to strengthen the existing laws, namely the Computer Crimes Act 1997 and the Penal Code, in curbing identity theft activities in Malaysia.

Besides, another positive move in curbing the problem would be to get the Anti-Spam Act passed.

The Anti-Spam Act would regulate interstate commerce by imposing limitations and penalties on the transmission of unsolicited e-mails via the internet.

While for Credit Cards fraud, it is advisable that authorities to spend their time and money to pin down the culprits.

Finally, online users must aware that identity theft like phising and information can be retrieved from online social network like facebook.

In conclusion, good and relevant cyber laws is needed, authorities have to enforce the cyberlaws effectively and bring down anyone that is involved in identity theft or cybercrime and lastly online users must aware of their data privacy and protection try not to expose their personal to risk.

Besides this, I think not just good and relevant cyber laws needed only. Because of the cybercrime can be committed in different ways and become more and more types of cybercrime happened from time to time. The cyberlaws have to be amended from time to time to cope with new cybercrime. In other words, the cyberlaws must be updated, sufficient, accurate, and on time to cope with the cybercrime that happened. If not cyber users will take advantages of the cyber world to commit crime.