Learn about the penalty for sending text messages under the IT Crimes Law

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The Telecommunications Regulatory Authority has filed a complaint with the Public Prosecution against a number of companies, in particular insecticide companies that send unsolicited text messages, in the first practice of activating the provisions of Article 25 of the Anti-Crimes Act No. 175 of 2018, .

In its article 25, the IT crimes law criminalizes the leaking of personal data to an electronic site or system to promote goods or services without the user's consent. The person involved is punished by imprisonment for a period of not less than 6 months and a fine of not less than 50,000 pounds, A pound, so put the first step to punish abusers to use that data.

Article 25, which deals with offenses related to the assault on the inviolability of private life and illegal information content, stipulates: "A term of not less than 6 months and a fine of not less than 50,000 pounds and not more than 100,000 pounds or one of these penalties shall be imposed on anyone who assaults Any of the principles or values ​​of the family in the Egyptian society or violated the inviolability of private life or sent many e-mail messages to a particular person without his consent or to give data to an electronic system or website to promote goods or services without his consent or to publish through the network or in one of the technical means Information for information Or news or pictures and the like in violation of the privacy of any person without his consent whether the information published is true or incorrect.

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