Q: Describe Section 11 of information technology act, 2000 ?

Ans:Chapter 4 of IT Act, 2000, “Attribution, Acknowledgement & Dispatch of Electronic records.

Attribution of electronic records (Section 11)
The word attribution means, “The act of establishing a particular person as the creator of a work of art. 2. Something, such as a quality or characteristic, that is related to a particular possessor.”
With respect to IT At 2000, attribution of electronic records means fixing identity of sender and receiver. Here originator is a person who sends or generates any electronic record. The receiver of electronic record is termed as Addressee. For example if ‘A’ sends an email to ‘B’, then ‘A’ is a sender or originator and ‘B’ is Addressee. In normal course of communication (postal communication or paper communication), it’s very easy to identify originator and addressee but in electronic communication it’s not the same.
The electronic record can be sent by the originator himself or by the person who has been authorized by the originator or by an information system that the originator has authenticated.

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