MALAYSIAN CYBER LAW

AND ELECTRONIC
GOVERNMENT LAW

prepared by :
NUR SYAMIZA ZAMRI
NURUL ANITA SITAM
 MEANING OF CYBER LAW

 Cyber law refers to any laws relating to

protecting the internet and other online
communication technologies.
 NEEDS FOR CYBER LAW
 Integrity and security of information
 Legal status of online transactions
 Security of government data
 Intellectual property rights
 Privacy and confidentially of information
 THE CYBER LAW ACTS IN
MALAYSIA
These cyber law include :
 Digital signature act 1997
 Computer crimes act 1997
 Telemedicine act 1997
 Communications and multimedia act 1998
A FEW EXAMPLES CYBER
LAW IN MALAYSIA
 DIGITAL SINGATURE ACT 1997
 Digital signature is an identity verification
standard that uses encryption techniques
to protect against e-mail forgery.
 The encrypted code consists of the user’s
name and a hash of all the parts of the
message.
 By attaching the digital signature, one can
ensure that nobody can eavesdrop,
irtercept or temper with transmitted data.
 COMPUTER CRIMES ACT 1997
 Gives protection against the misuses of
computers and computer criminal activities
such as unauthorised use of program,
illegal transmission of data or massages
over computers and hacking and cracking
of computer systems and networks.
 The government can have control at a
certain level over cyberspace to reduce
cyber crime activities.
 TELEMEDICINE ACT 1997
 Ensures that only qualified medical
practitioners can practice telemedicine and
that their patient’s rights and interests are
protected.
 These act provides the future development
and delivery of healthcare in malaysian.
 COMMUNICATION AND
MULTIMEDIA ACT 1998
 Ensures that information is secure, the
network is reliable and the service is
affordable all over world Malaysia
 Ensures high level of user’s confidence in
the information and communication
technology industry.
 WHAT IS ELECTRONIC
GOVERNMENT ABOUT?
 Electronic government is already in many
departments; in fact, ahead of most
Europe are in electronic governance.
 Electronic government needs to be more
central steering,
“the government isn’t against it, but it
certainly isn’t championing it”
 Ecommerce will radically reshape
government over the next five years.
 ELECTRONIC GOVERNMENT
LAW

 Information technology act 2000

 The induce act
 A FEW EXAMPLES OF
ELECTRONIC GOVERNMENT
LAW
 INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
ACT 2000
 Relate to electronic form which filing,
issue, grant or payment effected
 Relate to any other power of a civil court
required to be, or may be, prescribed.
 Relate to security procedure for purpose of
creating secure electronic record and
secure digital signature
 THE INDUCE ACT
 Supported by Senate Committee
Chairman Orrin Hatch, R-Utah
 Make manufacturers of such software
liable for inducing people to commit
copyright infringement
 CONCLUSION
 Cyber law :
Future cyber law must recognized the
people development component-crucial for
a K-Economy.
 Electronic government law:

Malaysian government envision to reinvent

governance activities through e-
Government
 REFERENCE
 Teacher’s handouts
 The malaysian cyber law
 Internet :
1. www.slideshare.net/safa/presentation-ict
2
2. www.cicc.or.jp/japanese/kunibetsu/pdf_p
pt/Malaysia-CIO_JAPAN_version_2.pdf