In fact, compare to US, there are not many laws governing the cyberscape in Malaysia.
Since 1997, some of the cyber laws that have been passed by our Parliament include:
1. the Digital Signature Act 1997,
2. the Computer Crimes Act 1997,
3. the Copyright (Amendment) Act 1997, (also read Copyright Act 1987)
4. the Telemedicine Act 1997,
5. the Communications and Multimedia Act 1998,
6. the Communications and Multimedia Commission Act 1998, and
7. the Electronic Commerce Act 2006.
It was reported that the Government would introduce some new cyber laws including: the Electronic Government Activities Bill and the Personal Data Protection Bill.
12 responses so far ↓
1 What are cyber crimes? // Dec 26, 2007 at 9:45 am
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2 watson // Apr 11, 2008 at 8:36 am
what is malaysia cyber laws.
3 Eddie Law // Apr 11, 2008 at 10:35 am
watson -all the Acts stated above are cyber law in Malaysia.
4 diyanakhazali // Apr 26, 2008 at 9:50 pm
can u give me examples of decided Malaysian cases on Digital Signature Act 1997 and Computer Crimes Act 1997 ?
5 Eddie Law // Apr 27, 2008 at 12:30 pm
diyanakhazali – sorry, I don’t have the relavant information.
You may check up http://www.elawyer.com.my/resource_cases.php see if you can find any.
6 SilentDog // May 26, 2008 at 1:50 am
Hi,
Is the PDF files above are the latest from the Malaysia government? Is there any updates on these cyber law? I am currently doing self reading on Malaysia cyber law.
Thanks and regards,
SilentDog.
7 Eddie Law // May 28, 2008 at 12:21 am
Hi SilentDog – I am not sure if there is any update to the statutes stated above. You may check with the relevant publishers.
8 SilentDog // May 28, 2008 at 9:53 pm
Hi Eddie, thanks for the information. I will try to check that out. Another questions, is that all what Malaysia Cyber Laws have? Every Malaysia cyber laws are are listed out? Have a nice days!
9 badteamz // Jul 20, 2008 at 4:47 pm
may i know about why these bill should take in place in malaysian environment
10 curious // Sep 24, 2009 at 3:25 pm
What is the Electronic Government Activities Bill? I have not heard about it. Has it been tabled?
I do understand that the Personal Data Protection Bill would be tabled in October 2009.
11 Ai Mei // Oct 26, 2009 at 8:14 pm
Recently I have forwarded an email which have been circulate for awhile. Could I be sued for forwarding those emails? Could my friends be sued for topping up some of their opinions? I did not delete their email addresses before forward. A week after that, I receive back the email with my email address and friends as well on it. This email contain persons name, what they have done and the company they work with.
12 Tim // Jan 12, 2010 at 12:19 pm
Hi Eddie, I’m a webmaster and have been finding your blog to be a very valuable resource on Cyber Laws. Thanks so much.
I do however have one question that I can’t find anywhere. I have done a bit of downloading mainly full movies from torrents and want to know if there are any laws in Malaysia that can persecute me for this act?
I know that it infringes on copyright and the fact that thousands of people are doing this does not make it right. Just a little concerned and want to know what is written about it.
Thanks
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