Internet Secrecy Laws and Its Implications on Developing Nations

摘要

What is being regarded today by everyone as internet started many years ago (in the early 1960’s) as simple Network ideas intended to allow general communications among computer users.. The initial concept of the internet was based on the idea that there would be multiple independent networks of rather arbitrary design, beginning with the Advanced Research Projects Agency Network (ARPANET) as the pioneering packet switching network. As time went by, and as the technology advanced, internet also has gone through a serious revolution that has come with some sort of issues / challenges. One of such issues is concerned primarily with the internet security and how well can internet be regulated or controlled. As is generally believed by most internet users that the internet or the cyber space is such an ‘open world’ with little or no control, but it has been proved over the years that the cyber world is not as open as people think, and that some form of measures have been and can still be put in place to regulate it. This work therefore address all these factors that can generally contribute to Internet Secrecy and the consequent effects this will have on the developing nations of the world.