As you may be aware, the Cyber Crimes Bill has now become an Act of Parliament which means that it is now enforceable. Kindly bear in mind the following:
- #Section24CyberTerrorism
- SECTION 3. It is an Offense to access someone’s phone or computer (5yrs imprisonment).
- SECTION 4. It is an Offense to Modify, Delete, obstruct etc someone’s data (5yrs imprisonment)
- SECTION 5. It is an Offence to communicate “critical information” to someone not authorised (15yrs imprisonment).
- SECTION 6..!It is an offence to possess “critical information” (15yrs imprisonment).
- SECTION 10. It is an offense to record private conversations even if you are part of the conversation (2yrs imprisonment).
- SECTION 19..It is an offence to publish information which is misleading (2yrs imprisonment).
- SECTION 21.!When you receive summons or police call outs, for Cyber Crimes its an offence to disclose that (5yrs).
- SECTION 22..Its an offense to be rude, indecent or vulgar with intent to humiliate (2yrs imprisonment).
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