hyderabad indias youth might be hailed as digital citizens given their addiction to technology but ironically most of them are unaware of the existing cyber laws said cyber security expert rakshit tandon on saturdayspeaking to stoi on the sidelines of an event on the same subject the advisor to the ministry for home affairs for the committee of child protection in digital age said how close to 70 per cent of the cyber crime accused are youthtoday school and college going students hack computers for fun but most of them have no clue about cyber law this is very unfortunate in fact the youth should know about the laws related to technology just like the way people know that need to stop at a traffic signal when the light turns red it is sad that childrenyouth are not even familiar with the types of cyber crime and who they should approach when they become victims of such crimes said tandonreiterating the rise in social mediarelated offences he said that the most common cyber crimes committed by the youth include hacking and floating of fake virtual profiles will anyone talk to a stranger on the road no but on facebook nowadays college and school students have over 300 friends after talking to people for few days they start sharing their personal pictures and details there have been several cases across the country where girls have become victims of fake profiles defamatory posts sexting and hacking said tandon