The government has proposed an amendment bill to the Penal Code to classify the unauthorised access to computers as a cybercrime.
The amendment bill proposed by Parliamentarian Ibrahim Muiz on behalf of the government has listed actions to be classified as cybercrimes. The list includes unauthorised computer access, unauthorised access to a computer with the intention to commit further crimes, unauthorised data interception and/or interference, unauthorised computer system interference, illegal use of devices, cyber violence, computer-related forgery and fraud, and copyright infringement.
The bill classifies the action of temporarily allowing unauthorised access to a computer, program, or data as a cybercrime as well. It also classifies the deliberate use of technology to temporarily intercept or interfere with data transmissions from or to a closed-off computer system via electromagnetic emission as a cybercrime.
Additionally, the bill defines cyber violence as the use of computers to produce, release, or store underage pornography. It further classifies types of forgeries and fraud as a cybercrime if a computer is used to input false data or alter, delete, or suppress the data or interfere with the function of a computer system to harm a person.
Furthermore, the bill defines deliberate copyright infringement using a computer as a cybercrime. It states that the punishment for committing a cybercrime would be a one-year prison sentence.