The Cybercrime and Cybersecurity Bill proposes criminalising the growing trend of cyberbullying‚ distribution of intimate material referred to as "revenge pornography", as well as malicious communication on social media platforms. It also seeks to criminalise threats to disclose pornography for the purposes of obtaining any advantage from a person. On Thursday, Deputy Justice Minister John Jeffery said that with regards to malicious communications‚ the bill aims to criminalise a data message which incites the causing of any damage to any property‚ or violence against a person or a group of persons. The offending message could also be intimate in nature‚ and distributed without the consent of the person involved. Jeffery said that in terms of a protection order‚ a court could prohibit any person from distributing a data message or may order an electronic communications service provider or person in control of a computer system to remove or disable access to the data message in questi...
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