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Identity Theft - a real problem!

The IT Committee continues with its 2nd Forum as part of it's Law Awareness Programme. The recent Forum last Thursday on 20th November 2008, relates to Identity Theft in Cyber Space.  The Forum was attended by over 40 people, and had 3 enterprising and interesting Speakers. Deepak Pillai, a lawyer known for his knowledge in IT Laws set out the perimeters of the topic and went on to define Identity Theft before informing the floor of dangers of Identity Theft. His power point presentation was interesting and educational. Professor Abu Bakar Munir not only had a powerpoint presentation but even played a video about a few convicts in US, convicted of Identity Theft in the internet. The video was entertaining, and definitely made it easy for the audience to understand the problem at hand.  En Shamsul, the former Director in MCMC (Multimedia and Communication Commission of Malaysia) explained how MCMC keeps an eye on Identity Theft particularly websites which was set up to misrepresent ...

Forum : Identity Theft in Cyber Space

In April 2008, the New Straits Times focus on this issue of Identity Theft in Cyber Space.  http://www.nst.com.my/Current_News/NST/Sunday/LearningCurve/20080419163016/Article/index_html IN UK, there is even a dedicated website for this http://www.identity-theft.org.uk/what-is-identity-theft.asp IN US there are laws specifically dealing with this. http://www.ncsl.org/programs/lis/privacy/idt-statutes.htm A case on point is the case of Edward Anderton an American Ivy League graduate who was sentenced to a 4 year jail term for stealing identities and living a lavish live at other people's expense, of course. See link:- http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,451944,00.html The Information Technology Law Committee of KL Bar views this problem to be a serious one. The upcoming Forum this Thursday is a platform to discuss this issue. The Forum will host 3 great speakers, and we hope as many people as possible will attend. Entrance is Free. We hope you would come attend the Forum. The relevan...