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Law No. (60) of 2014 on Information Technology Crimes

Plain-English summary

Issued 30 September 2014. Criminalises unauthorised access (Art. 2), damaging data or systems (Art. 3), interception (Art. 4), trade in hacking tools (Art. 6) and computer-related fraud (Art. 8). The Public Prosecution can order production of data and subscriber information from service providers (Art. 13) and, with a magistrate's authorisation, real-time collection of traffic and content data and blocking of content (Art. 18).

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All industries

Topics

Cybersecurity & IT Risk Fraud Risk

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