The illegal use of the internet, cyberspace, electronic website, or any other IT means is forbidden and the act shall be considered a cybercrime. Internet usage for the intrusion to privacy, to incite someone to pull off a crime, or for eradicating any data of any of the regulatory bodies is rigorously prohibited. UAE Federal Decree-Law 5/2012 on countering e-crime governs cybercrime in the United Arab Emirates.

Various forms of cybercrime exist, including:

1. Using Information about another person without their consent
2. Intrusion of privacy
3. Defrauding victims with Internet services or software
4. Mailing something associated with the fraud.
5. Creating, modifying, using, or keeping false writing so as to perpetrate fraud.
6. Unauthorized use of computer networks

Utilization of any type of information technology, with no necessary approval and legal rights, can lead to inflicting a prison sentence or fine.

The following acts can be considered cybercrimes, and varying penalties apply to them:

1. Defamation of Government officials
2. Faking electronic medic content
3. Recreating credit card info
4. Disrespecting religions and sharia law
5. Getting access to another person’s banking credentials
6. Falsifying any medical data

Here’s an overview of the various sorts of cybercrimes and Penalties for each.

Narcotics and Money Laundering

Someone who commits in purpose, via a Computer network or an IT means the below acts will be Accountable for Engaging in cybercrime and they are:

1. Any illicit movement, transport, or deposit of money with the aim to hide the money’s origin.
2. Hiding the nature of the illegal money or its source, transfer, associated rights or ownership.
3. Illicit possession, procurement or use of money with the knowledge of its illicit source.

Anyone accountable for deliberately doing the aforementioned crimes can be punished by a prison term for a maximum of 7 years and by a penalty from at least five lakh dirhams and no more than 2 million dirhams.

Access to an EIS

Those who obtain access to any EIS, any webpage, or IT means with no consent, in excess of consent, or continue to persist in access with no consent can be penalized by prison terms and with a fine in the range of at least 100000 dirhams and no more than 300000 dirhams.

Via any illicit access if anyone takes part in any removal, erasure, destruction, exposure, degradation, modification, duplication, issuing, and re-issuing of any data, then that person will be penalized with jail terms for a span of a minimum of 6 months or a penalty of not over 1,50,000 dirhams and not over 7,50,000 Dirham. Among the other illegal accesses are:

1. As long as the data object of the act is private and is Engaged in erasure, exclusion, duplication and much more, then the individual will be penalised with prison terms or a minimum of a year or a fine of at least 250000 Dirhams and a maximum of 1000000 Dirham.

• If a crime like this is attempted during the course of the individual’s work, then he/she will be penalized with at least 250000 Dirham and up to 1 million Dirham.

• An individual with access to any EIS, website, or others as mentioned previously with no approval in which such access is Aimed to Obtain government data or Any sensitive data Concerning Any business, financial, or economic establishment will be Prone to Jail term for a limited time and a fine of At least 2,50,000 Dirham and up to 1500000 dirham.
• If any sort of access like that results in the removal, erasure, destruction, exposure, degradation, modification, duplication, issuing and re-issuing of such governmental information will be penalized for a span of minimum 5 years and a fine of at least 500000 Dirham and up to 2 million Dirham.

• Whether such work is associated with the medical industry in which the data is associated with everything from medical examination to treatment, then any possession, alteration, deletion or illicit access of such data will lead to a penalization of prison term for a limited period.

Electronic Communication

Any individual who executes software on the computer network or an EIS or the IT means and results in intentionally or with no consent cease to run or resulting in them to be inoperable or leads to crashing, eradicating, leaving out, changing the program/information/webpage/system will be penalized by a jail term for a span of at least 5 years or a penalty of not below 5,00,000 Dirham and not above 3 million dirhams.

Extortion

If an individual extorts/intimidate/coerces someone else to get involved in/ not involved in a particular crime via IT means or computer network will be penalized by jail terms for 2 years and/or a penalty will be levied from 250000 Dirham to 500000 Dirham.

Whether the matter of such intimidation lies with doing a crime or with the motive of dealing in subjects against esteem or righteousness, then such a crime will be liable to prison terms for about 10 years.

Trafficking in Antiquities

Anyone who plans to take advantage of the trafficking of antiquities

In some cases apart from being in compliance with the law by means of

Setting up, dealing with, or running a website IT means for that purpose will be penalized with prison terms and fines from 500000 Dirhams to 1 million Dirhams. 

Defamation

An individual who offends(with no bias to the offense of defamation) some other person or charges another person for a dispute that may make him liable to penalizing/scorn by other individuals via a computer network or IT means, in that case, such an individual who leads to the scorn will be penalized with jail terms and a fine of a minimum of 2,50,000 Dirham and up to 5,00,000 Dirham.

Defamation against government officials would be regarded as an Exasperating aspect of the offense.

Forgery

An individual who engages in the falsification of any electronic media content of the federal or local government/public establishments will be penalized by a prison sentence for a limited period of time and a penalty of at least 150000 Dirham and up to 750000 Dirham.

Whether the Falsified documents are possessed by some other authority than the one as previously stated, then that individual will be penalized with a prison term and/or a penalty, not below 100000 Dirham and 300000 Dirham.

It’s important to keep in mind the above-stated acts that make up a crime. Although, it is always recommended to become familiar with such crimes that prevent you from serving a prison term, especially if these cybercrime cases are a part of the things we are prone to doing often in the Emirates. Since ignorance of the law absolves no one, the information on these web wrongdoings should be made public for everybody’s awareness. As this is among the important things to be aware of, there is a myriad of Legal Firms in UAE with the best possible Cyber Crime Lawyers in Dubai who are constantly accessible whether you have any queries concerning the Cybercrime law in the Emirates and other concerns concerning any law.

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