GuyanaCybercrime Act 2018, unauthorised access to a computer system
Guyana, Cybercrime Act, 2018, Act No. 16 of 2018
In force since .
A computer misuse rule.
What it requires
- Do not access a computer system without authorisation under the Cybercrime Act 2018; the located sources do not establish how Guyanese courts would read this against a public, unauthenticated page.
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.
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What this law does
The Cybercrime Act 2018 (Act No. 16 of 2018) was gazetted , passed by the National Assembly . Illegal access to a computer system, illegal interception, illegal data interference, illegal acquisition of data, illegal system interference, and illegal devices are all offences under the Act.
The Act also creates an offence for child pornography distributed through a computer system, and separately an offence for publishing or transmitting an intimate image of a person without that person's consent. The specific section number, the exact statutory wording, and a confirmed penalty figure for the illegal-access offence itself are not stated here.
A secondary account describes the offences generally as carrying penalties ranging from months to years of imprisonment and substantial fines, without stating the illegal-access offence's own figure. The date recorded as the Act's effective date is its Gazette publication date; no separate commencement clause was located in the sources read, though public reporting of charges and convictions under the Act since 2020 confirms it is in force.
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