A STATE agency will closely monitor the use of social media once relevant legislation is passed in Parliament, an official says.
National Information and Communication Technology Authority chief executive officer Charles Punaha said a cyber crime policy was before the National Executive Council. It is expected to be tabled in Parliament to be passed as law once the NEC endorses it. Punaha said it would spell out the penalties for those who misused and abused social media. Punaha said it was not the intention of NICTA to control the media. “It is not our intent to control the media but there must be some proper mechanisms in place that people have to be responsible when they are using the social media to attack others,” he said. He said the intention was to address cyber crime and security. “The cyber security policy is to safeguard the storage of data – for government to have access to the data, in the event that we have reason to believe that certain offences have been committed,” he said. “The law enforcement agencies must have access to the data in the event that offences have been committed. “For cyber crime, we are going to make it an offence for people to use pen-names, not using their real names and abusing the social media and making defamatory statement - you have to be answerable for it. “We will make it an offence that if an individual abuses the social media to attack the other individual and not using their name and making defamatory and slang statements, you are responsible. “You have to be accountable for you actions.” For example, he said law enforcement agencies would be given powers “to access laptops should there be reasons to believe that your laptops have been used to commit the offence”. PNG Facts/ The national Comments are closed.
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