Cyber Crime Internet Freedom
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THE CYBERCRIME PREVENTION ACT OF
2012
Officially recorded as Republic act No.
10175, is a law in the Philippines approved on September 12 , 2012. It aims to address legal issues concerning online interactions and the Internet in the Philippines. Among the cybercrime offenses included in the bill are cybersquatting, cybersex, child pornography, identity theft, illegal acces to data and libel.
HISTORY
The Cybercrime Prevention Act of 2012 is the first law in the Philippines which specifically criminalizes computer crime, which prior to the passage of the law had no strong legal precedent in Philippine jurisprudence,
While laws such as the Electronic Commerce Act of 2000(Republic Act No.
8792) regulated certain computer-related activities, these laws did not provide a legal basis for criminalizing crimes committed on a computer in general. The initial draft of the law started in 2002 from the former Information
Technology an eCommerce Council(ITECC) Legal and Regulatory Comittee chaired by Atty. Claro Parlade and its Information Security and Privacy sub-comittee co-chaired by Albert Dela Cruz of PHCERT and Atty. Elfren
Meneses of the NBI. ITECC was established under the presidency of
Joseph Estrada, And continued during the term of President Gloria
Macapagal Arroyo. It was headed by Secretary Virgilio ‘Ver’ Peña, the first Chair of the former Commission on Communication and Information
Technology (CICT), and was an attempt to harmonize the U.S Computer
Fraud and Abuse Act, the Cybercrime Prevention Treaty or Budapest
Convention on Cybercrime, Pending House and Senate Bills. It was
Originally known as Proposed bill HB377
The Act, divided into 31 sections split across eight chapters, criminalized several types of offense, including illegal access(hacking), data interference, device misuse, cybersquatting, computer related offenses such as computer fraud, content-related
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THE CYBERCRIME PREVENTION ACT OF
2012
Officially recorded as Republic act No.
10175, is a law in the Philippines approved on September 12 , 2012. It aims to address legal issues concerning online interactions and the Internet in the Philippines. Among the cybercrime offenses included in the bill are cybersquatting, cybersex, child pornography, identity theft, illegal acces to data and libel.
HISTORY
The Cybercrime Prevention Act of 2012 is the first law in the Philippines which specifically criminalizes computer crime, which prior to the passage of the law had no strong legal precedent in Philippine jurisprudence,
While laws such as the Electronic Commerce Act of 2000(Republic Act No.
8792) regulated certain computer-related activities, these laws did not provide a legal basis for criminalizing crimes committed on a computer in general. The initial draft of the law started in 2002 from the former Information
Technology an eCommerce Council(ITECC) Legal and Regulatory Comittee chaired by Atty. Claro Parlade and its Information Security and Privacy sub-comittee co-chaired by Albert Dela Cruz of PHCERT and Atty. Elfren
Meneses of the NBI. ITECC was established under the presidency of
Joseph Estrada, And continued during the term of President Gloria
Macapagal Arroyo. It was headed by Secretary Virgilio ‘Ver’ Peña, the first Chair of the former Commission on Communication and Information
Technology (CICT), and was an attempt to harmonize the U.S Computer
Fraud and Abuse Act, the Cybercrime Prevention Treaty or Budapest
Convention on Cybercrime, Pending House and Senate Bills. It was
Originally known as Proposed bill HB377
The Act, divided into 31 sections split across eight chapters, criminalized several types of offense, including illegal access(hacking), data interference, device misuse, cybersquatting, computer related offenses such as computer fraud, content-related