I am doing a survey on my friends on their cyber awareness. The survey has not yet completed but I got to see many of them came across pornographic sites accidentally or intentionally ...............well, our Indian law speaks nothing about viewing pornographic sites AT YOUR OWN WISHES; but many countries including the US feel that it is a RIGHT to check some pornographic images in your own PC if you are an adult and if you are not distributing it or harming anyone.
But imagine if you get to see your own images in some pornographic sites ? The face of the nude "model" who is taking bath under a shower or the one who is changing her lingerie and that apparently looks like a "change room" in a garment shop; or of a sexy bikini suited "model" whose private parts are *accidentally* showing ; or even a sleeping beauty whose breasts are showing ...................does it looks like you? YES IT COULD BE YOU when you are photographed by a spy cam and the pictures are uploaded in pornographic sites. The technology has made it possible to watch any beautiful thing to view in its ugliest , abused form .......You just can't help it..
But wait.. now the law is with you. You may not feel like visiting the lawyer or the police immediately after getting to see these "not so funny" staffs ,but you better know your rights. The amended Indian informations technology Act ( 2008) in section 66E do speak about not only securing your privacy in the internet , but also prevention of voyeurism .The Indian penal Code was a silent guard of the Indian cyber space, as many of its provisions were being stretched to cover these sorts of offences which were very new to Indian cyber space users.But now voyeurism which includes capturing images of private parts of individuals and distributing them in the cyber space, has got a legal tag as a criminal offence.
Voila .... Indian laws are now at par with other domestic cyber laws to protect such attrocious works in the internet . But in reality this particular provision may need more nurturing to serve the victims.Many government reporting agencies do feel that these new laws are half baked. This is true to a certian extent. A law should not be created just to tag an action as an ofence , but to balm the victim's pain and teach the wrong doer with strict punishment. .
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