Essentials of Cyber Laws for IT or ICT Professionals

It is very appropriate that we are discussing the essentials of Cyber Laws in this forum of technology students after extensive discussions on the science of Cryptography.
Cryptography is the perfect convergence point to demonstrate the interdependence of Cyber Laws and Applied Mathematics, which is the core content of Engineering studies.  
Engineering has many disciplines. From more generic Civil and Mechanical to Electrical and Electronics onto niche areas such as from Mining to Aeronautical Engineering.  
The scope of Engineering has been further expanding in recent days with an extension into areas such as Bio Medical Engineering.
When one observes these developments, it appears that Engineering is evolving as a discipline with possible areas of specialization in every other discipline.  
It is very appropriate that we are discussing the essentials of Cyber Laws in this forum of technology students after extensive discussions on the science of Cryptography.
Cryptography is the perfect convergence point to demonstrate the interdependence of Cyber Laws and Applied Mathematics, which is the core content of Engineering studies.  
Engineering has many disciplines. From more generic Civil and Mechanical to Electrical and Electronics onto niche areas such as from Mining to Aeronautical Engineering.  
The scope of Engineering has been further expanding in recent days with an extension into areas such as Bio Medical Engineering.
When one observes these developments, it appears that Engineering is evolving as a discipline with possible areas of specialization in every other discipline.  
Today, if you are an Automobile Engineer, you need to know about the laws of different countries on the “Emission Standards” and the Engineers have to take this piece of “Environmental Law” into their design and production planning.

Similarly, if you are today working with Computers in any way then you need to take into consideration the Cyber Laws. 

Unlike the Emission Laws, Cyber Laws are the basic laws of a Society and hence have implications on every aspect of the Cyber Society such as Governance, Business, Crimes, Entertainment, Information Delivery, Education etc. 

Whether you are designing a pure engineering equipment such as an Automobile or a CNC machine or a CT Scan machine, or even everyday Consumer devices such as a Washing Machine or a Television or a Mobile phone, or maintaining a Space Shuttle or an Electricity Generating Station, you would observe that there are Computer systems embedded into devices and they communicate with other Computer devices electronically.  
In other words, every high tech mechanical device which we use today is a mini or micro computer and operates in a “Cyber Space” created by communicating devices.
Their actions, automatic or triggered by human intervention, could have consequences on which the society has imposed some restrictions in the form of Laws and these are by definition, Cyber Laws.  
It is needless to say that if you are designing Computer Software, you are actually designing the core component that creates the Cyber World itself and all aspects of the laws of the Cyber World are applicable to your creation.  
We can therefore say that the work of an Engineer in the coming years is to do a lot with Computers or Computer led devices and therefore the laws covering the functions of these devices are a relevant knowledge for Engineers.
This knowledge is critical for those in the discipline of Software Engineering, Telecommunication Engineering and Security Engineering.  
Lack of such knowledge could drive the promising career of the Engineer into a Cyber Accident which would be debilitating for the Engineer and a loss to the society in general.