Title:
Sending these WhatsApp messages in South Africa can now land you with a fine and jailtime
Published:
BusinessTech, 2 June 2021
From the article:
Examples of such data messages include:
* Those which incite violence or damage to property;
* Those which threaten persons with violence or damage to property;
* Those which contain an intimate image sent without the subject’s consent.
Other offences include cyber fraud, forgery, extortion and theft of incorporeal property.
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A person who is convicted of an offence under the Cybercrimes Act is liable to a fine or to imprisonment for a period of up to fifteen years or to both a fine and such imprisonment as may be ordered in terms of the offence.