Cybercrime bill to deal with cyber bullying and revenge porn
Government hopes a new bill will address the country's cyber security concerns.
A new draft of the bill is set to be tabled in Parliament in the next few weeks.
Deputy Justice Minister John Jeffery says the Cybercrimes and Cybersecurity Bill is aimed at protecting South Africans from malicious communications, personal attacks and shaming online.
"What it deals with is cyber bullying and revenge porn," says Jeffery.
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Jeffery says the bill will help victims obtain court orders to have offensive content directed at them removed.
"The bill aims to criminalise a data message which incites the causing of any damage to any property belonging to, or violence against a person or a group of persons which is harmful, which in intimate in nature and which is distributed without the consent of the person involved. Provision is made in the bill for an interim protection order pending finalisation of criminal proceedings," says Jeffery.