Abstract
Today’s technology-driven human-society(s) country-wise are counted more than ever before where UAE-society is no exception. Tech-users here compete for comparative time-saving options for marginalizing operating costs. It has resulted in huge data usages, a high number of users & devices, which has attracted criminals for taking advantage, which is called cybercrime. Addressing cybercrime, the UAE, like many countries, is not out of control by-laws. However, laws like cybercrime for its society are not always for absolutely eliminating the crime. Thus, besides cybercrime law in place, UAE needs a piecemeal approach in practice where one department may vary from approaches of other-department. With awareness about risky online behaviors & options, tech-users as defenders are needed to invest their efforts. This study has laid out the foundation of the proposal, Akim’s Model-2021, using the Theory of Consumer Choice & Behaviors and Welfare Analysis. Tech-user’s actual utility-received is the sum of utility-received from awareness & own-effort and utility-received from cybercrime-law. Any changes to services received from joint efforts may risk tech-user, to be a victim. Welfare analysis shows tech user's actions - awareness & own-effort, besides cybercrime-law can create, Net Social-gain, which largely depends on tech user's actions. Tech-user’s economic surplus is greater than government expenses for implementation of cybercrime law in UAE. Net-loss to the UAE is the sum of deadweight loss and net-loss to tech producers for underutilized resources.
Highlights
Today’s human race lives in world of business mentality with a technology-driven modern lifestyle
The United Arab Emirates (UAE) society is no different in the globe
The outcome of cybercrime prevention depends on strength of cybercrime laws and tech users' awareness & own preventive effort. It means the outcome of service-on-security depends on full utilization of cybercrime law, tech user's own awareness & self-effort, which can ensure the highest level of security
Summary
Today’s human race lives in world of business mentality with a technology-driven modern lifestyle. The ongoing COVID-19 brings blessing globally for service providers who provide services meeting the high-rising market demands for electronic communications in multi-faucets including working from home, banking, shopping, obtaining news and entertaining ourselves, etc (Rahman, 2021b) These advancements have created huge opportunities for committing various forms of crime (Cybersecurity & Infrasture Security Agency, 2019). Besides having cybercrime law in place, this study takes on the challenges to layout the foundations of a proposal, which can be called Akim’s Model-2021, a piecemeal approach along with ensuring tech user's awareness & own-efforts for protection using Theory of Consumer Choices & Behaviors It further carries out welfare analysis of the proposal country-wise such as the UAE intending to attract lawmakers’ attention for addressing the cybercrime problem in the modern world. This study put forward recommendations for effective policy design country-wise
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