Cyberlaw is a term that encapsulates the legal issues related to use of communicative, transactional, and distributive aspects of networked information devices and technologies.
Malaysia has a vision towards a knowledge-based society and economy where ICT serves as a driver for restructuring of economy and employment.
Prerequisites include access to infrastructure and development of information, knowledge and applications.
Crime is hard to define
Crime is hard to define due to the slow but constant creating and changing laws, as well as many roles can a computer do in a crime.
Computer crime is hard to prosecute due to:
• Lack of understanding
• Lack of physical evidence
• Lack of recognition of assets
• Lack of political impact
• Complexity of case
• Juveniles
The organization who governs the cyberlaw is the Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission (Suruhanjaya Komunikasi dan Multimedia Malaysia).
Certification authorities that are licensed in Malaysia are Digicert and MSC Trustgate.
The Malaysian cyberlaws include:
Digital Signature Act 1997 – regulation of the public key infrastructure, PKI.
Copyright (Amendment) Act 1997 – protection of the expression of thoughts and ideas from unauthorized copying and/or alteration
Telemedicine Act 1997 – regulation of the practice of teleconsultations in the medical profession.
Computer Crimes Act 1997 - to ensure that misuse of computers is an offense.
Communications and Multimedia Act 1998 - defines the roles and responsibilities of those providing communication and multimedia services
It is difficult to accept the existence of the internet and electronic transactions.
There are three aspects that are related to trust, confidence and acceptability : -
Trust and confidence from protection of confidentiality and privacy given to personal data
Trust and confidence from security of electronic transactions
Acceptability of the internet from efforts to optimize positive use of internet and minimize negative impacts
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