Web identity – be truthful?

What does identity symbolizes –as per word web, it typifies the distinct personality of an individual regarded as a persisting entity.

What if you have been furnishing factious information (identity) while registering yourself for an email address with a website, answer is simple – “you could be cooling your legs in prison”! The government of India is considering decision to put the factious address people behind the bars who are providing the false information on the Internet, including the residential or office address. The sentence could be up to two years in jail.

We are obsessed with providing false information on Internet to mislead or create email address in the same website as at times the email service providers refuse two ids to the same person. The information to obtain the false can be easily established with the help of the Internet service providers and through our own damn IP addressees.

This move by the government is aimed towards giving more teething to our toothless cyber laws. So, let's wait for the laws to take effect but its “Better Safe than Sorry” for us to stop giving the factious information.

If any one interested in the law, here it is - a new section (section 66A) would be added in the proposed Information Technology Act 2006, which would make it a punishable offense to provide any false information about yourself.