Controversial Cyber Crime Bill Approved In Pakistan
Cyber Crime Bill Approved In Pakistan
ISLAMABAD: The questionable Prevention of Electronic Crimes Bill 2015 was affirmed in the National Assembly (NA) on Wednesday.
The bill should likewise be endorsed by Senate before it can be marked into law.
The draconian bill ─ which has been condemned by the IT business and in addition common society for controling human rights and giving exceeding forces to law implementation offices ─ was submitted to the NA for voting in Jan 2015 by the Ministry of IT.
It was then alluded to the NA Standing Committee on Information Technology and Telecommunication to address concerns raised by the restriction individuals and partners from the business.
A draft of the cybercrime bill was then commandingly cleared by the standing panel in September before being sent to the NA for conclusive endorsement without indicating board of trustees individuals the duplicate of the bill.
As per faultfinders, the proposed bill criminalizes exercises, for example, sending instant messages without the beneficiary's assent or censuring government activities on online networking with fines and long haul detainment. Industry agents have contended that the bill would hurt business also.
Online feedback of religion, the nation, its courts, and the military are among subjects which could conjure official intercession under the bill.
Salient features of bill:
- Up to five year imprisonment, PKR 10 million fine or both for hate speech, or trying to create disputes and spread hatred on the basis of religion or sectarianism.
- Up to five year imprisonment, PKR 5 million fine or both for transferring or copying of sensitive basic information.
- Up to PKR 50 thousand fine for sending messages irritating to others or for marketing purposes. If the crime is repeated, the punishment would be three months imprisonment and a fine of up to PKR 1 million rupees.
- Up to three year imprisonment and a fine of up to PKR 0.5 million for creating a website for negative purposes.
- Up to one year imprisonment or a fine of up to PKR 1 million for forcing an individual for immoral activity, or publishing an individual’s picture without consent, sending obscene messages or unnecessary cyber interference.
- Up to seven year imprisonment, a fine of PKR 10 million or both for interfering in sensitive data information systems.
- Three month imprisonment or a PKR 50 thousand fine or both for accessing unauthorised data.Three year imprisonment and a fine of up to PKR 5 million for obtaining information about an individual’s identification, selling the information or retaining it with self.
- Up to three year imprisonment and a fine of up to PKR 0.5 million for issuing a sim card in an unauthorised manner.
- Up to three year imprisonment and fine of up to PKR 1 million rupees for making changes in a wireless set or a cell phone.
- Up to three year imprisonment and a fine of up to PKR 1 million for spreading misinformation about an individual.
Know more:New cybercrime bill tough on individuals’ rights, soft on crime
Cybercrime bill controversy:
Scratch through the surface of the Bill, and there is much that is disputable. Pundits say that an administration drove sub-board of trustees invest effort to adjust the draft that had initially been etched by the IT service and industry partners and activists — the last now holding that they were rejected from the way toward concluding the draft. What now stands to be tabled in the National Assembly, they say, is an inexactly worded bit of legitimate drafting that not simply double-crosses a poor handle of the specialized parts of advanced interchanges and the web, additionally contains a few profoundly risky provisions that are interested in error and might be utilized as supports for restriction and the concealment of perspectives an administration finds unpalatable.
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