http://www.theage.com.au/news/web/saudi-arabia-sets-jail-penalties-for-cyber crimes/2007/03/27/1174761434264.html
Saudi Arabia sets jail penalties for cybercrimes March 27, 2007 - 11:38AM Saudi Arabia said on Monday it will impose one-year prison sentences and fines of 500,000 riyals ($US133,000) for internet hacking and misuse of mobile telephone cameras, such as taking unauthorised pictures. The cabinet said in a statement it approved a bill on information technology crimes proposed last year by the kingdom's quasi-parliament, the advisory Shura assembly. The measure is to go to the king for ratification. The bill would penalise "illegal entry into an internet site or entering a site in order to change its design, destroy it or amend it", it said in a statement published by state media. It also defines as a crime "infringing upon private lives through misuse of mobile telephones equipped with cameras and similar devices with the purpose of defaming or harming people". Camera phones have been opposed by religious police in conservative Saudi Arabia, which imposes a strict form of Islamic law. The country banned the sale of the devices for several months in 2004. But the restrictions have failed to stop the spread of the latest technological fashions in a country of 24 million with high per capita income and a burgeoning youth population. The state strictly controls the use of the internet by tracking users and blocking sexual and some political content. Some internet forums used by liberal reformers and Islamist extremists have been stopped. -------------------------- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -------------------------- Brooks Isoldi, editor [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.intellnet.org Post message: osint@yahoogroups.com Subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** FAIR USE NOTICE. This message contains copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. OSINT, as a part of The Intelligence Network, is making it available without profit to OSINT YahooGroups members who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information in their efforts to advance the understanding of intelligence and law enforcement organizations, their activities, methods, techniques, human rights, civil liberties, social justice and other intelligence related issues, for non-profit research and educational purposes only. We believe that this constitutes a 'fair use' of the copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Law. If you wish to use this copyrighted material for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use,' you must obtain permission from the copyright owner. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
