Ethical responsibilities for assessment of techniques and legal framework to minimize IT crimes in UAE

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This paper provides an overview of the ethical values to prevent or minimize the IT crimes in UAE.

The paper describes different aspects and views of the Ethical Responsibilities for Assessment of Techniques and Legal Framework that will directly contribute to Minimize IT Crimes.

It will shed some lights on the IT crimes which might seem normal day-to-day activity on the Internet and how does it negatively affect the stability and security of the cyberspace.

Also, the research shows some examples of such crimes, and then will address the possibilities and responsibilities of how to minimize the number of crimes.

It all starts from the literature procedures of protecting self-machines by installing or activating the first guard line of a firewall to the most sophisticated access policy that can ever be applied.

At this point, we cannot simply bypass the ethical impact of IT crimes on the cyber society and the major role of the awareness campaigns that will positively contribute and help to promote the ethical values that will become a part of the people’s culture to protect the cyberspace.

As it has been experienced in various places, there are a number of differences in policies and procedures when designing the cyberspace access privileges, these differences are a simple result of the variations of cultures and laws applied for these locations.

Finally, we will address impact of the legal framework that shapes the regulations and the ethical values to minimize the IT crimes in order to show to what level it has reached and how it became a major issue in our daily life.