ABSTRACT
With the introduction of United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNICITRAL) model law on e-commerce in 1996, several jurisdictions adopted focused law to regulate online commerce and related e-governance. The Indian parliament enacted its Information Technology Act, 2000 to incorporate essential provisions of UNICITRAL model law on e-commerce. This chapter discusses the existing laws and proposed Data Protection Bill that promises smooth conducting of e-governance. It also discusses the possible lacunas in the laws including the bill that needs to be addressed for preventing the incidences of data privacy breach. After witnessing several misuses of the Internet to target the government, corporations, and individuals by terror organizations, scammers, hackers, and private stakeholders who would be using the data illegally collected for unethical gain, the Indian Government proposed more stringent laws to prohibit and penalize criminal activities.
