To hack an e-mail account in Argentina is no longer a simple crime, since a new regulation which considers details about this has been voted and included in our Penal Code.
For our law system, to violate somebody else’s e-mail account is similar to violate a person’s correspondance. The e-mail is a form of communication which enlarges the possiblities that traditional post offers. That’s presicely the reason why our Penal Code considers both of them, the e-mail and the letter, as almost equals.
The right to privacy of correspondence is widely taken into account by our legal system, and it must be extended to any form of correspondence, if necessry. Considering this basic right, the decision to modify our Penal Code is a possitive one. Especially if we realize of the impact that technology has in our daily lives. Technology advances and so must do the law, since among many advantages that technology brings, there are also some disadvantgaes, such as cibercrime.
To hack an e-mail account is a form of cibercrime and it is correct to fight against it. It is no casual that e-mail accounts have so many security meassures to which we have to submit when opening one. To use an e-mail account we nned to use a company’s sevice and we also need a password, and all these has no other aim than preventing extrangers from reading our e-mails.
Luckily, The Law will contribute from now on with those security meassures that e-mails already have, by punishing those who violate them. The Law will punish with 6 months in prision the people who opens, eliminates or deviates somebody else’s e-mails and the punishment can be extended to 1 year in prision, if an e-mail is re-send or published in a public website.
For our law system, to violate somebody else’s e-mail account is similar to violate a person’s correspondance. The e-mail is a form of communication which enlarges the possiblities that traditional post offers. That’s presicely the reason why our Penal Code considers both of them, the e-mail and the letter, as almost equals.
The right to privacy of correspondence is widely taken into account by our legal system, and it must be extended to any form of correspondence, if necessry. Considering this basic right, the decision to modify our Penal Code is a possitive one. Especially if we realize of the impact that technology has in our daily lives. Technology advances and so must do the law, since among many advantages that technology brings, there are also some disadvantgaes, such as cibercrime.
To hack an e-mail account is a form of cibercrime and it is correct to fight against it. It is no casual that e-mail accounts have so many security meassures to which we have to submit when opening one. To use an e-mail account we nned to use a company’s sevice and we also need a password, and all these has no other aim than preventing extrangers from reading our e-mails.
Luckily, The Law will contribute from now on with those security meassures that e-mails already have, by punishing those who violate them. The Law will punish with 6 months in prision the people who opens, eliminates or deviates somebody else’s e-mails and the punishment can be extended to 1 year in prision, if an e-mail is re-send or published in a public website.
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