14 August 2012 is the Internet Blackout Day as a move against Evidence Act 114A. Act 114A is to raise public awareness of Amendment 114A to the Evidence Act. The amendment would make people responsible for any content coming out of their computers, mobile devices or Internet connections.
This will affect me because if someone parks outside my house and just use my Wifi to post something
illegal content online , that not affect that person but at last i will become a
victim and even could be sued because the illegal content that he/she post
online.
Even if i forget to
logout from my social account or been hacked like Facebook and twitter,a
person use my account name and post something that illegal , i will also will
become a victim because of that person reaction.
I agree with the statement “ Innocent until proven guilty “
where it against one of the core principles of justice. This act will make many
people fear because social network is a site where people can participate and create without fear.
Shaifubahrim Saleh,
President of PIKOM, concurred, “This amendment may appear to lower the bar for
the prosecution of potentially innocent parties.”According to Shaifubahrim, the
amendments made to the Evidence Act 1950 have also created repercussions on
individuals, corporations and society as a whole. This results in people
needing to be vigilant on any postings or contents appearing on their website
or social media. Information on the Internet must be sensibly used as the post
is open to everyone. (
(Picture from http://techpresident.com )
Created by Nurain bt Md Ariff (1112701449)
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ReplyDeleteI also agree with you the statement "innocent until proven guilty"! This Act does not care much if the person was hacked by other people. Why? Because they only believe that the person who posted the illicit content is the author themselves.. Which is not fair! Oh! You are also quite right about the wifi. If we want to prove ourselves innocent, we might want to try trace the IP address of the person who hacked us. But who knows? It might end up to our own IP address bacause the hacker have already access your wifi and hack using it... which is not really helping.
ReplyDeleteShaifubahrim Saleh, President of PIKOM, concurred, “This amendment may appear to lower the bar for the prosecution of potentially innocent parties.”
ReplyDeleteThis statement truly caught my attention. It has been on my mind since I was enlightened about the act. I think the amendment is absurd, and should not have been in the first place. The government would be better off finding actual murderers and kidnappers than assumed "cyber-criminals", who are merely expressing opinions. Besides, the internet is a tool that is made usable for everyone. If they are not satisfied with what has been spoken (technically typed), then they should improve themselves, not put the blame on their own people.
I agree with Nurain opinion about this topic because, if thing like this happend, it difficult to know and identify the offenders and this kind of thing already happend to me when someone act like nothing happend.
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