Cybercrime Laws Vary - Find Out What Countries Consider Online Crime Illegal & Punishable
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Many countries still don’t effectively deter, stop, limit or punish cybercrime. A cybercrime is either any crime that requires the use of a computer system to complete the crime or a crime where the computer system is the target of the crime. Here are examples of a few countries with laws related to particular cybercrimes. This is not a complete list of every country with laws related to cybercrime.
- In Australia, forgery, fraud, hacking and theft related to a computer system can be cybercrimes.
- In Belgium, electronic sabotage, forgery, fraud and hacking related to a computer system can be cybercrimes.
- In Canada, the courts seem to update the law to include cybercrime by using existing laws related to electronic sabotage, forgery, fraud, intrusion and theft.
- In Chile, the courts seem to be considered competent to hear cases of any cybercrime involving child pornography as long as the website involved can be visited from Chile.
- In the Czech Republic, hacking doesn’t seem to be a cybercrime but what you do with the accessed information can be.
- In Ireland, theft and fraud related to a computer system can be cybercrimes.
- In Japan, electronic sabotage, forgery, fraud, hacking and intrusion related to a computer system can be cybercrimes.
- In Peru, electronic sabotage, forgery and intrusion related to a computer system can be cybercrimes.
- In Spain, fraud and theft related to a computer system can be cybercrimes.
- In the United Arab Emirates, it seems that forgery, fraud, hacking and theft related to a computer system can be cybercrimes in addition to the use of electronics to insult any religion.
- In the United States of America, creating and operating a bot-network is now a Federal cybercrime. In addition, electronic sabotage, forgery, fraud, hacking, identity theft and intrusion related to a computer system can be cybercrimes.
This post is part of the series: What Is Cybercrime?
This series of articles explains how cybercrime is not necessarily different than everyday crime.