CyprusAttacks against Information Systems Law, Articles 3, 4, 7, 11-12 (Illegal Access, System Interference, Tools, Corporate Liability)
L. 147(I)/2015, arts. 3, 4, 7, 11-12 (transposing Directive 2013/40/EU)
In force since .
A computer misuse rule binding public and private bodies.
- Audit expectation
- none
What it requires
- Do not access the whole or part of an information system intentionally and without right by violating a security measure.NIST AI RMFMAP 4.1
- Do not intentionally and without right seriously hinder or interrupt an information system's operation, including by inputting, transmitting, damaging, deleting, deteriorating, altering or suppressing its data or by blocking access to it.no control in the NIST AI RMF
- Do not, intentionally and without right, produce, sell, procure for use, import, distribute or otherwise make available a computer program designed or adapted primarily to commit an offence under articles 3 to 6, or a password, access code or similar data giving access to an information system, intending it to be used to commit such an offence.no control in the NIST AI RMF
- A crawler operator that is a legal person is liable for an offence a person in a leading position within it commits for its benefit, and faces a fine of up to one hundred thousand euro, to which the court may add further sanctions.
These lines are LexLint's reading of the law's text.
In the frameworks
- NIST AI RMF
- MAP 4.1Approaches for mapping AI technology and legal risks of its components – including the use of third-party data or software – are in place, followed, and documented, as are risks of infringement of a third party’s intellectual property or other rights.
Our reading of where this law's duties sit in each framework, and in the NIST AI RMF, line by line beside each duty above. It never says that running a control meets the law. How we read a framework against the law
Who enforces it
Settledness
- As of
- Open questions
- Does a login page, a robots.txt directive or a rate limit count as a 'μέτρο ασφάλειας' whose violation makes access an offence under Article 3?
- Is requesting pages that a site serves to any visitor, against its terms of use, access 'χωρίς δικαίωμα' to an information system under Article 3?
What record it asks for
Logging duty
Articles 3, 4, 7, 11 and 12 define offences against information systems, the offence of making tools available, and the liability and sanctions of legal persons. They impose no duty to create, keep, produce or review a log or record.
- Kind
- None
- As of
What this law does
The Attacks against Information Systems Law of 2015, transposing EU Directive 2013/40/EU, punishes intentional access without right to the whole or part of an information system where that access is obtained by violating a security measure, by up to five years' imprisonment or a forty thousand euro fine or both (art. 3).
The same maximum penalty punishes intentionally and without right seriously hindering or interrupting an information system's operation by inputting, transmitting, damaging, deleting, deteriorating, altering or suppressing its electronic data, or by blocking access to that data (art. 4).
The same maximum penalty also punishes producing, selling, procuring for use, importing, distributing or otherwise making available a computer program, password, access code or similar tool intended to be used to commit an article 3 to 6 offence (art. 7). A legal person is guilty of an article 3 to 9 offence committed for its benefit by a person in a leading position within it (art. 11).
On conviction, a legal person faces a fine of up to one hundred thousand euro, and the court may also exclude it from public benefits, ban its commercial activity, place it under judicial supervision, order it wound up, or close the premises used for the offence (art. 12). The Law was published in the Official Gazette on . Cyprus legislation takes effect on the date of its Official Gazette publication unless it provides a different date.
When LexLint raises it
When your app profile says your app crawls the web.
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