List any eight (8) acts done without permission of the owner under the Information Technology Act, 2000 that makes a person liable to pay damages by way of compensation.

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List any eight (8) acts done without permission of the owner under the Information Technology Act, 2000 that makes a person liable to pay damages by way of compensation.

Answer & Explanation:

Section 43 of the Information Technology Act, 2000 provides the provisions relating to Penalty and compensation for damage to computer, computer system, etc. It states: If any person without permission of the owner or any other person who is in charge of a computer, computer system or computer network: accesses or secures access to such computer, computer system or computer network or computer resource; downloads, copies or extracts any data, computer data base or information from such computer, computer system or computer network including information or data held or stored in any removable storage medium; introduces or causes to be introduced any computer contaminant or computer virus into any computer, computer system or computer network; damages or causes to be damaged any computer, computer system or computer network, data, computer data base or any other programmes residing in such computer, computer system or computer network; disrupts or causes disruption of any computer, computer system or computer network; denies or causes the denial of access to any person authorised to access any computer, computer system or computer network by any means; provides any assistance to any person to facilitate access to a computer, computer system or computer network in contravention of the provisions of the Information Technology Act, 2000 rules or regulations made thereunder; charges the services availed of by a person to the account of another person by tampering with or manipulating any computer, computer system, or computer network; destroys, deletes or alters any information residing in a computer resource or diminishes its value or utility or affects it injuriously by any means; steal, conceal, destroys or alters or causes any person to steal, conceal, destroy or alter any computer source code used for a computer resource with an intention to cause damage; he shall be liable to pay damages by way of compensation to the person so affected.

Topics: Information Technology Act, 2000

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