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04-11-2007, 02:50 PM
The Senate of the Dominican Republic has approved a bill on high tech crimes. The bill is aimed at bringing current legislation up to date in regards to electronic technology and its use in committing crimes. The Senate gave a unanimous vote of approval to the report issued by the committee on justice and human rights headed by Senator Francisco Dominguez Brito. The law protects systems that employ information technology, and will allow the prosecution of crimes committed using electronic technology. The bill mentions the use of IT technology in the commission of crimes such as homicide, robbery, fraud, blackmail, identity theft, defamation, forgeries and crimes involving telephones and hacking of computer systems. Punishments range from 20 to 30 year jail terms and fines of up to 1000 minimum wages to three months and five minimum salaries from the public sector.
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