Anti-Cyber Crime Law

The Cybercrime Prevention Act of 2012, officially recorded as Republic Act

No. 10175, is a law in the Philippines approved on September 12, 2012. It
aims to address legal issues concerning online interactions and the Internet in
the Philippines. Among the cyber crime offenses included in the bill are
cybersquatting, cybersex, child pornography, identity theft, illegal access to
data and libel.
The project is designed to formulate a law that fights crimes consequent to
abuse of IT, computer, and the internet. This could be carried out through
establishment of a mechanism that limit incidence of such crimes. The law
should define the crimes, assign punitive actions for each crime or violation,
and determine the party with the jurisdiction to handle such abuses and
enforce the punishments.

In this way we will achieve the safety to threats,safeguard the intellectual

rights of the legal use of computer and networks,safeguard public interest,
morals, and communal values,maintaining information security.
According to a press release from the Philippine National Police AntiCybercrime Group (PNP ACG), a total of 1,211 cybercrime complaints were
filed with them from 2013-2015. The top five complaints received were online
scams (366), online libel, online threats, identity theft, and photo and video
voyeurism.

There are 44 million Internet users in the Philippines as of 2014, said the PNP
ACG, citing digital discovery engine Factbrowser. The users spend an
average of 18.6 hours per week (around 2.6 hours per day) online.
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Article 5:
Any person who commits one of the following cyber crimes shall be
subject to imprisonment for a
period not exceeding four years and a fine not exceeding three million riyals
or to either punishment:
1.Unlawful access to computers with the intention to delete, erase, destroy,
leak, damage,

alter or
redistribute private data
2.Causing the information network to halt or breakdown, or destroying,
deleting, leaking or
altering existing or stored programs or data.
3.Obstruction of access to, distortion, and causing the breakdown of services
by any means.
Article 14:
The Communications and Information Technology Commission, pursuant to
its powers, shall provide
the assistance and technical support to competent security agencies during
the Investigation stages
of such crimes and during trial.
http://www.mcit.gov.sa/Ar/MediaCenter/Download/Anti_Cyber_Crime_Law_En
.pdf
The Cybercrime Prevention Act of 2012 is the first law in the Philippines which
specifically criminalizes computer crime, which prior to the passage of the law
had no strong legal precedent in Philippine jurisprudence. While laws such as
the Electronic Commerce Act of 2000 (Republic Act No. 8792) regulated
certain computer-related activities, these laws did not provide a legal basis for
criminalizing crimes committed on a computer.

The first draft of the law started in 2001 under the Legal and Regulatory
Committee of the former Information Technology and eCommerce Council
(ITECC) which is the forerunner of the Commission on Information and
Communication Technology (CICT). It was headed by former Secretary
Virgilio "Ver" Pea and the Committee was chaired by Atty. Claro Parlade (+).
It was an initiative of the Information Security and Privacy Sub-Committee
chaired by Albert Dela Cruz who was the President of PHCERT together with
then Anti-Computer Crime and Fraud Division Chief, Atty. Elfren Meneses of
the NBI. The administrative and operational functions was provided by the
Presidential Management Staff (PMS) acting as the CICT secretariat.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cybercrime_Prevention_Act_of_2012