CyprusConvention on Cybercrime Ratifying Law, Article 4 (Illegal Access)
In force since .
A computer misuse rule binding public and private bodies.
- Audit expectation
- none
What it requires
- Do not enter the whole or part of a computer system intentionally and without right by violating the security measures, per article 4 of Law 22(III)/2004.
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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. 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 'μέτρα ασφάλειας' whose violation makes access an offence under Article 4 of Law 22(III)/2004?
- Is requesting pages that a site serves to any visitor, against its terms of use, access 'χωρίς δικαίωμα' to a 'σύστημα ηλεκτρονικών υπολογιστών' under Article 4?
What it makes you log
Logging duty
Article 4 of the ratifying law makes it an offence to enter all or part of a computer system intentionally and without right by violating security measures. It imposes no duty to create, keep, produce or review a log or record.
- Kind
- None
- As of
What this law does
Cyprus ratified the Council of Europe Convention on Cybercrime by Law 22(III)/2004, which sets out the Convention's English and Greek texts as a schedule to the Law and gives them the force of domestic law. Article 4 of the Law as enacted makes it an offense to enter the whole or part of a computer system intentionally and without right by violating the security measures.
Article 2 of the Convention, set out in the schedule, requires each Party to criminalize intentional access without right to the whole or part of a computer system. Law 22(III)/2004 was published in the Official Gazette on . Under article 7 of the Interpretation Law, a Law that provides no other day comes into force on the date of its publication in the Official Gazette.
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