Looking at Cyber Crimes Essay

Wide Web, an addition of online users resulted in both good and bad individuals. With increasing data online, the chances of it being misused increased as people got more technologically aware. Since the internet provides people with anonymity and complex ways of broaching personal privacy and data bounds, the legal ramifications had to be considered by regulators. Delineating the boundaries of cyber law became increasingly important in order to protect users online.

What is Cyberspace Law?

The Cyberspace law, also known as the cyber law, is a piece of legislation that regulates transactions and communications over the Internet or over other interconnected devices and technologies. This legislation protects members of the public, particularly internet users from illegal activities by hackers and other persons or entities with ill-intentions (LaMance, 2015). The law regulates several parts of the communications world including:

Privacy concerns

Freedom of expression

Intellectual property

Electronic and mobile commerce

Cyberspace crimes

Problems in Prosecuting Cyber-crimes

Many laws and sections within laws dealing with unauthorized access, spamming, unauthorized utilization of wireless networks, cyber-stalking and cyber-bullying did not exist over 3 decades ago. Federal and state governments had to come up with the legislations so as to tackle the issues that were bedeviling the communications industry, particularly the promising internet subsector (Shinder, 2011). Now that the legislations are in place, enforcing them has become quite difficult. In fact the difficulty or special nature of investigating cyber crimes or prosecuting has become so difficult such that many police departments have set up and dedicated special units to enforce cyber regulations. However, it is said that other police departments don't have such divisions and because of the fact that enforcing legislation in the internet world is essentially more difficult than enforcing other conventional legislations (Shinder, 2011).

Issues with Jurisdiction

Branches of Law. In the United States, there are 3 branches of law in use: the civil law, the criminal law and regulatory law. The criminal law deals with crimes/offenses that are prosecutable by federal, state and local governments. The civil law deals with disagreements between entities. Regulatory laws are enforced by regulatory institutions over particular activities or industries.

Type of Case: in each system of law there are different courts or agencies that specifically deal with prosecuting or the trial of certain crimes.

Level of Offense: Under criminal law, different courts are assigned different jurisdictions, depending on the severity of the crime.

Monetary Damages: Within the civil…