On September 12, 2012 President Noynoy Aquino signed a Republic Act 10175 or the Cybercrime Prevention Act of 2012. The act punishes libel case online and internet-related offenses.
The punishable acts under the law are the following:
- computer related forgery, fraud and identity theft, crimes in the internet
- offenses against confidentiality, integrity and availability of computer data system
- illegal access, illegal interception, data interference, system interference and misuse of devices
- content related offenses on cybersex and child pornography
- cyber squatting (the user of other person domain name to profit, misled, destroy the reputation and deprive others from registering)
- offenses on libel committed through a computer system
The National Bureau of Investigation and the Philippine National Police will make a cybercrime unit and have a center for special investigators.
Though this law is for people's protection it also has some disadvantages. Some people are reacting that this law ends our freedom of expression. Our comment for blogs, in facebook or any sites can send us to jail.
Hmmn, from now on, we should be more careful in our statements in the internet.
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