The Cyber Security And Data Protection Bill 2019
Skip to e Cyber Security And Data Protection Bill 2019 Commentary On Cyber Protection Bill Purpose of the Bill The Bill has a quite well written preamble and has all the hallmarks of well crafted legislation that seeks to serve and protect people’s rights while complying with the Constitution like all legislation is sup[posed] to. The bill firstly intends to consolidate cyber related offenses which should allow for, easy to understand and interpret legal provisions. Recently we have seen what seems to be very biased interpretations of cyber offenses related provisions with what happened to some pro-democracy activists and political opponents who tweeted some things that the government claimed were not true. The Bill on the face of it seems to want to address these issues by having one piece of legislation that deals with cyber offenses. But of course these laws/provisions have to be Constitutional, fair and not prejudicial to any and all rights due to the people. As we shall see,...