Abstract
The advent of the Internet has introduced many new forms of crimes. It has also transformed old forms of crimes, which are now being committed in new ways. In effect, cyberspace not only offers new and highly sophisticated opportunities for criminal misconduct, but also creates the potential to commit traditional crimes in a modern way. It has opened the door to criminal behavior in ways that would never have been possible in the past. The identity thief uses information relating to the identity of another person’s such as name, address, telephone number, mother’s maiden name, social security number, social insurance number, health card number, bank account information, driver’s license number and date of birth. It is stealing someone’s identity information to commit theft, fraud or other crimes. This paper aims to identify the legal issues on the cyberspace theft of identity in Iran, and to identify and analyze the laws relating to theft in Iran.
Highlights
Theft is one of the oldest crimes against properties
This paper aims to identify the legal issues on the cyberspace theft of identity in Iran, and to identify and analyze the laws relating to theft in Iran
This article has provided a brief look at the problem of cyberspace identity theft in Iranian Law as “the crime of the new millennium” (Markus & Steven, 2006)
Summary
Theft is one of the oldest crimes against properties. It has been problematic in almost all societies, and has had severe punishments. The crime of computer theft can be conceived in different forms, such as hardware robbery, information data robbery, and software robbery. It is doubted that these forms of crimes can be applied to the crime of classic theft. In the crime of classic theft, the subject of crime is a physical and tangible object, while computer data’s are not tangible; in information and data robbery, the information would be copied, and would still remain with their owner. The more precise evaluation of the subject requires studying the regular theft, and analyzing different forms of this crime
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