Q: Elaborate section 14 and section 15 of information technology act, 2000 ?

Ans: Secure Electronic Records( Section 14) and Secure Digital Signatures( Section 15) :
In the age of e-commerce where the electronic records and digital signatures are of crucial significance for proper functioning of e-commerce and business in the globalised free market economy it is imperative that the transactions of ecommerce in the form of electronic record and digital signatures should be secure, authentic and must be suitably confidential from the general public and third parties. The relevant parties to the electronic records and digital signatures must be confident while conducting e-commerce or business that their transactions are secure and cannot be tampered with by any unrelated persons to the transactions of e-commerce between the relevant parties. Therefore, in order to have proper security procedures to secure electronic records and digital signatures, proper cyber laws are very essential. Many countries in the world have tried to frame such laws suiting to their unique business environment, the political system and the necessity of properly conducting e-commerce or business in the modern world of cyberspace and the internet.
We find that in the new environment of the development of technology of information and communication have witnessed several new legal and moral issues while conducting e-commerce and business. For many of those issues there may not be clear-cut answers but certainly these issues have very important impact on the communication systems and the internet. We find that the internet has given a sudden growth of new and speedy means of communication in the globalised market place. These transactions are very lucrative commercial transactions through the internet and no business which wants to have competitive advantage in the world market can do without the internet for the purposes of e-commerce and business.
IT ACT, 2000 includes the legal norms
relating to security of electronic records and
electronic signatures. It means when the
'electronic record' and 'electronic signature'
are deemed secure
1. Secure electronic record (sec14) An electronic record can be secured for the purposes of the Act if it has been authenticated by means of a secure digital signature.
If any security procedure has been applied to an electronic record at a specific point of time, then such record shall be deemed to be a secure electronic record from such point of time to the time of verification.
2. Secure digital signature (Section 15) Section 15 lies down that an electronic signature shall be deemed to be a secure electronic signature if :
a) The signature creation data, at the time of affixing, was under the exclusive control of signatory and no other person; and
b) The signature creation data was stored and affixed in such exclusive manner as may be prescribed.
3. Security procedure The
Central Government may for the purpose of sections 14 and 15 prescribe the security procedures and practices having regard to commercial circumstances, nature the of transactions and such other related factors as it may consider appropriate. The digital signature infrastructure depends largely on process of encryption and decryption for maintaining security. This process is called as cryptography.
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