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A young woman has been given police protection after a video clip of her undressing in a bedroom was circulated on the internet, the short film been taken by an MBA student who decided to release it to his friends when his girlfriend refused to marry him. The Guardian Newspaper reports that it has become India’s most searched item on Google. How does the law deal with morals and technology in India. This case comes just as India is about to make “online viral video voyeurism” a crime, this law was with both the uploading and transmitting of such clips as an offense being punishable in the first instance by three years in jail or a half a million rupees in fine.

However Pavan Duggal, a supreme court lawyer specializing in cyber crime in Delhi stated “The new law does not recognize that the victim’s privacy has been violated. It allows the accused out on bail where he will delete the data. It does not recognize the irreparable damage caused to the girl’s reputation. It does not understand what goes on in private homes needs to be kept private. That’s a fundamental flaw.”

Source: The Guardian