The Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) has informed the Parliament that more than 700 cases were registered in 2020 for violation of privacy under Section 66E of the Information Technology Act, 2000.
As per the data maintained by National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB), Ministry of Home Affairs, a total of 389, 812 and 742 cases for violation of privacy under Section 66E of the IT Act, 2000, were registered during the years 2018, 2019 and 2020, respectively.
As per the Indian computer emergency response team (CERT-In), a total of 1,158,208 and 1,213,784 cyber security incidents were recorded during the year 2020 and 2021 (up to October, 2021), respectively. Out of this, a total number of 54,314 and 32,736 cyber security incidents were related to government organisations during the year 2020 and 2021 (up to October 2021), respectively.
