Time up for revenge porn pushers

20 January 2017 - 09:12 By Jan-Jan Joubert
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The government has opened another front in combating "revenge porn" - the Cybercrimes and Cybersecurity Bill will be tabled in parliament shortly.

Revenge porn is the malicious publication of intimate and sexually explicit pictures - often by a spurned former partner - without the consent of the person depicted.

Deputy Minister of Justice John Jeffery told the parliamentary press corps yesterday that the bill, the text of which runs to more than 100 pages, would deal with all types of cybercrime, including the criminal use of communication technology, breaking of confidentiality agreements, unlawful access to data, interception of protected data, malware-related offences, interference with data and password offences.

The bill criminalises cyber-related offences by conflating them with the existing offences of fraud, forgery, uttering and extortion.

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