Cyber Crimes would probably be the new frontier in policing crime, in the near future. For over 15 years now, Lawyers have mention that Cyber Space will be the new battle ground to stamp out criminal activities, and that comment is still not out of line, after all these years.
With internet becoming the new 'necessity' in modern life, the need to police and stamp out criminal activities in cyber space becomes more acute by the day.
In Malaysia, there are a few Statutes which deals with cyber crime. The traditional Statutes would be the Penal Code and Computer Crimes Act 1997 (CCA 1997).
However the Communications & Mulitimedia Act 1998 (CMA 1998) has many provisions which criminalizes certain activities in the internet.
The CCA 1997 basically deals with Computer Hacking, whilst the CMA 1998 deals not only with criminal activities in the internet; but is a far reaching Statute governing the organisations dealing with internet, the operation of the internet etc etc.
We would be blogging on this area, zooming on specific provisions for discussion.
Thank you.
Richard Wee
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