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A company holds customer Aadhaar numbers and purchase histories as raw data. Under the Information Technology Act, 2000, an employee dishonestly alters stored records so that the information held in the computer resource is changed to the owner's detriment. Which reasoning best links the data concept with the legal position?

The Act defines information widely to include data and databases in electronic form, so raw data held in a computer resource is covered. Unauthorised alteration or damage to such data can attract liability under the Act's provisions on damage to computers and data.

  1. ANo offence arises because raw data is not 'information' and so is outside the Act
  2. BThe data is within the Act's concept of information stored in a computer resource, so unauthorised alteration can attract liability for damage to computer, computer system or dataCorrect
  3. CLiability arises only if the data has first been converted into knowledge
  4. DThe Act protects only information that is printed on paper

Explanation

The IT Act defines information broadly to include data, text, images, databases and similar items in electronic form. Unauthorised alteration or destruction of data in a computer resource falls within the civil and criminal provisions on damage to computer systems and data. The distractor claiming raw data is outside the Act wrongly narrows the definition.

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