'The definition of hacking is getting broadened with rise in cyber crime'

Rajesh Aggarwal, IAS, Joint Secretary, Ministry of Tribal Affairs, Government of India

“Very few people know that while working as IT secretary in Maharashtra, I passed 70 judgements as the adjudicating officer under the Act. Lot of them were about cyber crimes, ATM frauds, cloning of credit/debit cards. This is the famous Sanjay Dhande judgement. On privacy there were only 3 judgements in the country, and I was fortunate to be handling all 3 of them. In one of the judgements, a girl saw her husband’s and father-in-law’s emails when her divorce proceedings were going on, as she knew the passwords. The judgement was passed and it was termed as hacking. So what would you call hacking is really very interesting. If your spouse checks your phone and looks at the last dialled number, then that could be called hacking.”

Rajesh spoke at length on cyber crime and about the 70 judgements he had passed related to privacy at the 15th VARINDIA INFOTECH FORUM held in New Delhi on 25th May. The VARINDIA INFOTECH FORUM entered its 15th year by bringing together the who’s who of the ICT industry, IT consultants and senior government officials and PSUs and setting up a platform for a day-long event consisting of power-packed sessions of technical presentations, panel discussions and discourses on issues impacting the technology landscape and, most importantly, business networking. The theme of the 15th INFOTECH FORUM was – “Digitization and Role of IoT for Next-Generation Enterprise”.