CYBERCRIME LAW

Cybercrime Prevention Act of

2012
Republic Act # 10175

CYBERCRIME LAW
is a law in the Philippines approved on 12
September 2012. It aims to address legal
issues concerning online interactions and the
Internet in the Philippines. The law defines and
punishes certain acts, generally classified as
offenses against the confidentiality, integrity
and availability of computer data and systems,
computer related offenses and content related

measure's provisions
penalizing those who participate in the
libelous statement or message after it is
posted

online libel

statements made online can be deemed

malicious or libelous and subject to
penalties
with the respect to the original author of
the post

Supreme Court:
such penalties are the same
as those under the libel
clauses in the Revised Penal
Code and not the stricter
penalties as stated in the new
measure.
Libel offenders may be imprisoned
for "minimum and medium periods"
or fined from P200 to P6,000 under
the Revised Penal Code.

aiding and abetting

in child pornography, sending
and creating unsolicited
commercial communications
or spam and online libel as
punishable measures

aid & abet cyber offenses:

oillegal access
oillegal inteception
odata interference
osystem interference
omisuse of devices
ocyber squatting
ocomputer-related fraud
ocomputer-related identity theft
ocybersex

Section 4 (c)(3)

which pertains
to unsolicited commercial
communications

Section 12

which pertains to
real-time collection of traffic data

Section 19

which pertains to
restricting or blocking access to
computer data