Cybersecurity guide for developing countries
Ireland:
Iceland:
Israel:
Italy:
Japan:
Luxembourg:
Norway:
New Zealand:
Netherlands:
Poland:
Portugal:
Czech Republic:
United Kingdom:
Russia:
Slovenia:
Sweden:
Switzerland:
Taiwan:
I.2.9.4
Law of 13 July 1988
Law on the recording of personal information, 1981
Law on the protection of privacy, 1981, 1985, 1996; Law on the protection of
information in the administration, 1986
Law of 31 December 1996
Law on the protection of computerized personal information, 1988
Law of 31 March 1979
Law on personal data records, 1978
Law on official information, 1982
Law of 28 December 1988
Law on the protection of personal information, 1997
Law of 29 April 1991
Law on the protection of personal information in computerized systems, 1995
Law of 12 July 1988
Federal law on information, informatization and the protection of information
Law on the protection of information, 1990
11 May 1973
Federal law on the protection of information, 1992
Law on the protection of information, 1995
International cybercrime legislation
The first international convention set up to address the international character of cybercrime was the
Council of Europe “Convention on Cybercrime”10 adopted in Brussels on 23 November 2001, which
entered into force in July 2004 (following its ratification by five of the signatory countries, at least
three of which had to be from the Council of Europe). The convention contains the following points.
– Substantive criminal law:
• offences against the confidentiality, integrity and availability of computer data and
systems;
• computer-related offences;
• offences related to infringements of copyright and related rights.
– Procedural law:
• expedited preservation of computer and traffic data and rapid disclosure of the latter to the
competent authorities;
• preservation and maintenance of the integrity of computer data for a period of time as long
as necessary to enable the competent authorities to seek its disclosure;
• production order;
• search and seizure of stored computer data;
• real-time collection of computer data;
• the adequate protection of human rights and liberties.
– Each State has to adopt the necessary legislative and other measures to establish jurisdiction
over the following offences, without prejudice to its domestic law:
• when committed intentionally, the access to the whole or any part of a computer system
without right;
• when committed intentionally, the interception without right of non-public transmissions
of data to, from or within a computer system;
10 www.conventions.coe.int/Treaty/FR/Treaties/Html/185.htm
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