Cyber safety week on cyber safety and cybercrime: socio legal implications

Chandigarh: The Criminal Justice Practicum Cell (CJPC) and Legal Aid Society, University Institute of Legal Studies, Panjab University, Chandigarh is organizing a Cyber Safety Week on Cyber Safety And Cyber Crime: Socio Legal Implications from 10th February 2020 -14th February 2020. Similar programme is being organized by UGC-Human Resource Development Centre, Panjab University from 10th February 2020 -15th February 2020. 

These programmes are organized under the aegis of Prof. (Dr.) Rattan Singh, Director, University Institute of Legal Studies and Dr. Anju Choudhary, Assistant Professor (Law), Faculty Co-ordinator, CJPC, Dr.AmitaVerma, Assistant Professor (Law) and Dr. Karan Jawada, Assistant Professor (Law), Faculty Co-ordinators, Legal Aid Society. 

Prof. (Dr.) Nishtha Jaswal, Vice-Chancellor of the Himachal Pradesh National Law University addressed both the programme where she explored the much ignored realm of socio legal impact of cyber space and its creation on the millennial and gen z generations and the key value differences between them and the prior generations. The etymology of cyber space and its creation out of sheer science fiction was a topic that gathered the interest of students. The topic of social media and its role in modern family, social and work life was discussed and the lack of separation among the same was brought to the forum. Social identity and its evolution with cyber space and crises related to it were also discussed. Cyber space was compared to a spider’s web entrapped in which one experiences the lack of privacy and personal space. This web has created with it many new crimes with which the law isn’t able to keep pace. This makes the social impact of the same highly magnified especially in the latest generation that has never lived in a world without it. 

Prof. Tankeshwar Kumar, Vice-Chancellor, Guru Jambheshwar University of Science and Technology, Hisar, Haryana, an expert in cyber security and the latest advancements in the same congratulated all the participants and the organizers for choosing such a relevant topic in advent of a global information network. He further went about discussing the crimes of identity theft and the sale of personal information on the dark web. He went on to discuss lack of apt legal recourse in the fast paced world of technology and interconnectivity and hoped that the weeklong workshop would help in creating awareness about cyber safety in not only the faculty but also the students.

Prof S.K.Tomar, Honorary Director, UGC-Human Resource Development Centre discussed the importance of human resource in education, its up gradation through various programs and interactive exercises and its role in the education of the next generations.