Law No. 21.459 of 20 June 2022 on Cybercrime

法规简介

Chile's modernised cybercrime legislation enacted in June 2022, repealing the former Law No. 19.223/1993 and adapting to the Budapest Convention provisions (Chile acceded in 2017). Newly criminalised offences include: unlawful access (Art. 2), unlawful interception (Art. 3), attack on integrity of computer data/data interference (Art. 4), attack on integrity of computer systems/system interference (Art. 1), computer forgery (Art. 5), computer fraud (Art. 7), and abuse of devices (Art. 8). Provides exemption from criminal liability for 'ethical hacking' practices. Abuse of children/adolescents' vulnerability constitutes aggravating circumstance.