Identity is an attribute of a person which define who the person is, what he does and how he looks like. Person's identity in the real space is more apparent because he is visible and people can judge base on one's look. Even though one's identity can't truly find out even in real space but person's gender, age and other attribute can be find out by looking at a person. Hence law pertaining to the identity can be applied to real space based on geographic location. Also one's behavior and attitude toward other person can also be controlled by state law. Hence bottom line is that people activities is mostly regulated by some sort of government and constitutional law and that law is based on his or her true identity. Hence identity has got very significant effect on regulating law in real space.
Now what happens in cyberspace when person's identity is not visible or in other word there are thousands activities happening in cyberspace and no one knows who doing what. Tracking person's activities and motive behind his/her activities in cyberspace is very difficult not only because he is invisible but also there is not geographic boundary. Hence identity become crucial in cyberspace. Few decades before when World Wide Web was deployed, there is not such things as identity in cyberspace because all it has to do is to broadcast the information and don't care who receive what information. As Information Technology advances, commercial and government sites are being deployed in web and lots of monetary related activities/transactions started happening in the web, business and government has felt huge importance and necessity of one's identity to complete the transactions/activities successfully. Without person's true identity, it is impossible to carried out this kind of transactions like banking, online shopping, online bill pay and other online activities that happens in cyberspace. Hence identity in cyberspace become one of the serious global issue these days not only because it involves business transaction but also involve other activities like cyber attack, cyber terrors and identity thief. All these cyber related crime happening because of the identity issues. If one can be identified what he is doing and who is he then it is possible to track the yber related activities. These days innovation and advancement in cyberspace, it is possible to track down who is doing what in cyberspace. Most of the commercial activities like banking, online shopping required identity verification before proceeding online activities, but for other activities it is still major issues like computer hacking, virus spreading etc. At least the technology can help us when these activity started and where is the source of these activity by reverse DNS mapping and IP identification but still the exact location and true identity of who is involved in this activity is very difficult. Hence identity has become serious issue in cyberspace and consequences of these cyber crime is disastrous. The serious in the sense that it is very difficult to apply cyber law because of the geographical boundary and one can't be held responsible if the activities happening beyond the specific boundary and law.
Since it is very difficult to regulate all the activities in the cyberspace but still there are possibilities due to the technological advancement to help find out the exact source of those activities and at least its impact can be minimize and controlled in some way.
Now what happens in cyberspace when person's identity is not visible or in other word there are thousands activities happening in cyberspace and no one knows who doing what. Tracking person's activities and motive behind his/her activities in cyberspace is very difficult not only because he is invisible but also there is not geographic boundary. Hence identity become crucial in cyberspace. Few decades before when World Wide Web was deployed, there is not such things as identity in cyberspace because all it has to do is to broadcast the information and don't care who receive what information. As Information Technology advances, commercial and government sites are being deployed in web and lots of monetary related activities/transactions started happening in the web, business and government has felt huge importance and necessity of one's identity to complete the transactions/activities successfully. Without person's true identity, it is impossible to carried out this kind of transactions like banking, online shopping, online bill pay and other online activities that happens in cyberspace. Hence identity in cyberspace become one of the serious global issue these days not only because it involves business transaction but also involve other activities like cyber attack, cyber terrors and identity thief. All these cyber related crime happening because of the identity issues. If one can be identified what he is doing and who is he then it is possible to track the yber related activities. These days innovation and advancement in cyberspace, it is possible to track down who is doing what in cyberspace. Most of the commercial activities like banking, online shopping required identity verification before proceeding online activities, but for other activities it is still major issues like computer hacking, virus spreading etc. At least the technology can help us when these activity started and where is the source of these activity by reverse DNS mapping and IP identification but still the exact location and true identity of who is involved in this activity is very difficult. Hence identity has become serious issue in cyberspace and consequences of these cyber crime is disastrous. The serious in the sense that it is very difficult to apply cyber law because of the geographical boundary and one can't be held responsible if the activities happening beyond the specific boundary and law.
Since it is very difficult to regulate all the activities in the cyberspace but still there are possibilities due to the technological advancement to help find out the exact source of those activities and at least its impact can be minimize and controlled in some way.
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