Introduction to technology and communication

You have never posted a letter, but you have sent a hundred WhatsApp forwards. You have never visited a bank branch, but UPI has moved your money a thousand times. Every one of those acts happened on infrastructure that Parliament could not have imagined when it wrote most of Indian law — and it had to write new law to catch up. This topic is the doorway into that new law.

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Technology changes faster than legislation, so this module studies the law built specifically to govern computers, networks and digital communication — principally the Information Technology Act, 2000 — rather than expecting old statutes to stretch to fit it.

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