Venezuela

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(As published in the Official Gazette of the Bolivarian republic of Venezuela, October 30, 2001)

SPECIAL STATUTE AGAINST COMPUTER RELATED CRIMES

Title II

Of the crimes against systems using information technology

Article 6. - Unlawful access.
Any person who, without the due authorisation or exceeding any he (she) may have obtained, accesses, intercepts or uses a system using information technologies, shall be punished with prison from one to five years and fine from ten to fifty tax units.

Article 9. Unlawful access or sabotage to protected systems.
The penalties provided in the former articles shall be increased by from a third to half, when the therein provided actions or their effects affected any of the components of a system using information technologies protected by security measures, meant for public functions or containing personal or property information of individuals or bodies corporate.

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