NEW DELHI: Expressing satisfaction over the IT laws in the country, Nasscom vice president Sunil Mehta stressed on the need to educate the enforcers.

According to him, the enforcement agency and the judiciary should be adequately aware of the existing technologies in order to investigate and prosecute better.

Mehta said, “In order to attain this objective, Nasscom has already set up two cyber crime labs in Mumbai and Thane to facilitate cyber crime investigation training among police officers. The training cells have already trained around 800 policemen.”

He added that the Gurgaon police have also shown interest in setting up a lab for training its staff.

Mehta was speaking at the Nasscom-Interaction on Amendments to the IT Act. He said that Nasscom is reasonably satisfied with the recommendation of the IT Act Expert Committee for the amendments to the Information Technology Act 2000.

Nasscom president, Kiran Karnik, was a member in the committee. The panel submitted its report on Monday.

Nasscom had stressed on three issues in its recommendations – E-commerce laws, computer crimes, and data protection and procedural changes.

Mehta also opined that data protection and piracy are different and they should be clearly differentiated. He said, “ Forming a common consensus about what can be defined as 'privacy' in India is very important. Today every person has a personal definition of privacy. Someone may term it as sharing of one's phone number, health details, spam, etc.”.

He added that Nasscom is working towards facilitating a debate around privacy and involve all the concerned groups like industry, government and even the individuals. It is holding workshop and inviting comments so as to collate them and give it to the government.

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