Examples of Cybercrimes Act in a sentence
Concerns were also raised regarding Tanzania’s use of a Cybercrimes Act of 2015 to limit freedom of expression and association.
Those arrested were typically detained only briefly because the Cybercrimes Act had yet to be fully tested in the courts.
Any misuse of East Herts Council’s computer resources may result in a criminal prosecution under the Computer Misuse and Cybercrimes Act (2018) as well as East Herts Council’s own internal disciplinary action.
In particular, by making discretional use of the 2015 Cybercrimes Act a number of popular voices (including the popular social media Jamiiforums) were silenced8.
Problematic state responses to online gender-based violence in Uganda and Nigeria Nigeria’s 2015 Cybercrimes Act aimed to comprehensively prohibit, prevent, detect, prosecute and punish cybercrimes in Nigeria, and introduced some key measures to outlaw and punish cyber-stalking, cyberbullying and the “distribution of racially or ethnically prejudicial or violent material through a computer system or network” (Safe Online Nigeria 2015).
Joint Select Committee to sit jointly with a similar committee appointed by the House of Representatives to consider and report on the operations of the Cybercrimes Act, relative to the review of the legislation in accordance with the provisions of the Act.
In March 2020, 23-year-old Elijah Kitonyo, a student, was arrested after publishing claims on Twitter that the government was telling lies about the COVID-19 situation in the country.73 According to the authorities, this contravened the Computer Misuse and Cybercrimes Act.
The Cybercrimes Act of 2015, which protected the right to privacy and personal security in the digital sphere, as well as children from crimes such as child pornography, was in part the result of efforts to incorporate into national law the Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the sale of children, child prostitution and child pornography.
That is a colossal difference--larger, I believe, than you would ever get from any two sensible human beings.
Kenya’s regulatory attempts have seen the enactment of the Computer Misuse and Cybercrimes Act, 2018 (hereinafter the “2018 Act”).