The status of cybercrime in Mexico, Brazil and the outcome on cybercrime and security of the fifth meeting of the Internet Governance Forum
Revista de Contratación Electrónica › Núm. 113, Mayo 2011 › Estudios
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La finalidad de este artículo es examinar la situación actual de la legislación y políticas sobre el “cibercrimen” en México y Brasil desde una perspectiva de comparación general, así como revisar algunos de los seminarios más recientes que se han presentado en este ámbito en Latinoamérica. Asimismo se pre-sentan algunas de las conclusiones de las sesiones sobre “cibercrimen” y seguridad que tuvieron lugar du-rante el quinto encuentro del IGF desarrollado en Vilnius, Lituania los días 14 a 17 de septiembre de 2010.
The purpose of this article is to examine the current status of cybercrime legislation and poli-cies in Mexico and Brazil from a general comparative perspective, as well as to review some of the most recent seminars that have been presented in the field in Latin America. It is also aiming at assessing the approaches and the outcome of the sessions related to cybercrime and security that took place during the Fifth Meeting of the IGF held in Vilnius Lithuania on 14-17 September 2010.
PALABRAS CLAVE: Legislación sobre cibercrimen, Mexico, Brasil, Internet Governance Forum
KEYWORDS: Cybercrime legislation, Mexico, Brazil, Internet Governance Forum
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The status of cybercrime in Mexico, Brazil and the outcome on cybercrime and security of the fifth meeting of the Internet Governance Forum
The views and opinions contained in this article are the authors own ideas and do not represent the views of ISOC or any other entity, organization or employer affiliated with any of the authors. The website of ISOC 2010 IGF Ambassador Alumni is available at: http://www.isoc.org/pubpolpillar/igfambassadors/al umni.php
This article was written in connection to the final project of the Internet Society (ISOC) Ambassadors Program for the Internet Governance Forum (IGF), which is part of the requirements for the completion of the program and it is the follow-up of the Fifth IGF Meeting held in Vilnius Lithuania in September 2010. ISOC granted a number of ambassadorships for experts to be able to attend and participate in the Fifth IGF meeting in Vilnius. Cristos Velasco participated for the third time as ISOC-Returning Ambassador and Vanessa Cravo as a first time ISOC Ambassador.* 1. The status of the legislation on cyber-crime in Mexico Unlike Venezuela1 or the Dominican Re-public2, Mexico does not have an independent, special law that punish conducts and crimes committed through the use of computer systems or Internet. Mexican law partially punish con-ducts committed through the use of computer systems and information technology equipment in some provisions contained in the Federal Criminal Code, a number of State Criminal Codes and other laws at the federal level.3 For example, Title Nine, Chapter II (Articles 211bis 1- 211bis 7) of the Federal Criminal Code provides for imprisonment terms ranging from six months to eight years in and fines for those who copy information, alter, destroy or cause loss of information contained in computer systems or equipment pertaining to the State or media storage pertaining to public security or computer systems and equipment pertaining to financial institutions. Article 168 bis of the FCC punishes with imprisonment from six months to two years and a fine of three hundred to three thousand days of salary to an individual who without right: (i) deciphers or cracks telecommunications signals other than a satellite’s carrier programs, or (ii) transfers the property, use of devices, instruments or information that allows deciphering or cracks telecommunications signals other than the satellite’s carrier programs. In the field of corruption of minors and child pornography, Title Eight, Chapter II (Articles 202 to 202 bis) of the Federal Criminal Code provides fines and imprisonment sentences ranging from seven to twelve years to those who commit child pornography related crimes, and even said provisions establish punishments as a result of the transmission of data files through public or private telecommunications netw...Ver el contenido completo de este documento
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