Cybercrimes Act Now Enforceable: Key Offenses and Penalties Every Digital User Should Know

As you may be aware, the Cyber Crimes Bill has now become an Act of Parliament which means that it is now enforceable. Kindly bear in mind the following:

1. *Section 3*. It is an Offense to access someone’s phone or computer (5yrs imprisonment).
2. *Section 4*. It is an Offense to Modify, Delete, obstruct etc someone’s data (5yrs imprisonment)
3. *Section 5*. It is an Offence to communicate “critical information” to someone not authorised (15yrs imprisonment)
4. *Section 6*.!It is an offence to possess “critical information” (15yrs imprisonment)
5. *Section 10*. It is an offense to record private conversations even if you are part of the conversation (2yrs imprisonment)
6. *Section 19*. It is an offence to publish information which is misleading (2yrs imprisonment)
7. *Section 21*.!When you receive summons or police call outs, for Cyber Crimes its an offence to disclose that (5yrs)
8. *Section 22*. Its an offense to be rude, indecent or vulgar with intent to humiliate (2yrs imprisonment)
9. *Section 24*.!It is an act of domestic terrorism to attempt to incite ethnic divisions among the people of the Republic (Imprisonment for life)

NOTE:
If you are an Admin of any Group etc, be mindful of these crimes and what you post and allow to be posted.

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