مدى فاعلية التشريعات الوطنية للحد من الجرائم المعلوماتية

Abstract EN

The advancement of information technology has created a new type of crimes, whose formation actions focus on data and information stored on information systems, private computer accounts and websites with the aim of robbing them or depriving owners of their accounts.

Such information and data have to do with properties and making money.

This can be attributed either to the importance of the piece of information itself as it is related, for example, to an intellectual property right, or to a financial loss incurred on the owner of information when he loses it or is deprived of it.

Given the huge damages and losses that may be inflicted on individuals and public and private institutions due to the occurrence of these illegal acts, the world has turned to crackdown on these acts.

International treaties as well as internal laws have stipulated the criminalization of those acts.

Studies and research papers have explored the concept of those crimes, underlined their characteristics as well as the features of their perpetrators, and highlighted the reasons that hinder their detecting and the prosecution of their perpetrators.

They have also discussed the legal capabilities that must be provided for in the legal texts of states in order to thoroughly investigate these crimes and bring their perpetrators to justice with supporting evidence to prove their commission of such crimes.

To this end, the Saudi legislator has also attempted to set a legal system in which it provides for criminalizing acts that affect the integrity of data, information, information systems, websites and accounts, in addition to criminalizing acts that information technology is a means of their commission.