Cyber Law

Cyber law or the ICT law is the Local and International overall legal system that deals with the Internet, cyberspace, and their respective legal issues. This unit covers a fairly broad area, encompassing several subtopics including Cyber Crimes, Electronic evidence, Law relating to E-Commerce etc; Generically, cyber law has been referred to as the Law of the Internet.

Initially, there was a thought process that the arrival of the Internet represented a new wild wild west. This was supposed to be a world where there would be no applicability of the Rule of Law and people could go ahead and do whatever they wanted to do. But soon the world realized that there should be “Rule of Law” even in the Internet, because it was necessary to establish corrective mechanisms to protect people and organizations on the Internet from the activities of the malicious people on the Internet and help maintain order.

Therefore gradually International conventions were developed as the International law relating to the field of ICT and the Sri lankan Parliament enacted various statutes which contained the substantive and procedural law which was necessary to regulate the field of ICT.

As the future professionals who are engaged in the field of ICT, the students must have a general idea of Law and about the Law relating to the ICT industry, to conduct themselves within the parameters stipulated by the Law.