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Science And Technology: Their Relationship with Law

addition, fortunately, right that time space activities causing inconvenience to

now, scientists cannot tell will involve almost every agencies comprising sen-
the difference between industry, be it catering and sitive, secret or confiden-
the ISS grains and home- drinks, fashion and enter- tial functions has come up.

F grown barley. tainment, or law. Chances of use of the web
O as a forum for publication

R However, in order for An attractive legal envi- of defamatory content has
E commercial space activi- ronment is needed to en- increased multifold and

N ties to grow, there must be able operating companies there is a need for a clear,
S an attractive legal envi- to plan passenger services coherent expression of the
I ronment. Unfortunately and place orders for the law in this area.

C existing space law consists vehicles that they require,
mostly of some inter- and for manufacturers to Hacking time theft (steal-

M governmental treaties that finalize vehicle design ing someone else’s inter-
E are quite inappropriate for details and raise the in- net time) pornography,
T business. vestment that they need in sending threatening e-

H order to put the vehicles mail, defamatory e-mail,
O Space is just another place into production. hacking e-mail, e-mail

D where humans are go- bombs, etc. are the main
O ing to live. In addition, Sovereignty over outer areas of cybercrime.
L because space is almost space is another debat-

O limitless humans are going able issue that needs to be The people who commit
G to live there in vast num- resolved. cybercrimes are mostly

Y bers in the future. In other those who have white-
words, it will become a CYBER LAWS AND JU- collar jobs, unlike usual
completely new habitat. RISDICTIONAL criminals. They can even

Today most activities in ISSUES be high school kids. The
space are government territory that a cybercrime
ones because getting to With the advent of inter- can stretch across is im-

and from space is so ex- net, a whole new category mense. It can go over
pensive. Once travel from of crime that includes continents

orbit is cheap enough, as fraud, theft of services
on earth, individuals, pri- and data, copyright in- The principles that govern
vate companies and or- fringement, destruction the exercise of criminal ju-

ganizations will carry on of data through computer risdiction are based on the
most activities in space. At sabotage (viruses) and acts assumption that “crime” is

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