European hackers face five-years in jail under proposed EU law | ICT Security-Sécurité PC et Internet | Scoop.it

The European Parliament is proposing news laws that would harmonise cyber-criminal penalties from two years in prison, to in some cases five years in the slammer.

 

===> The European Parliament approved by vast majority a new draft law which could find hackers facing jail time for at least two years, including those who distribute hacking software and tools. <===

 

Europe’s place is to create laws which would affect all 27 member states of the Union, as part of efforts to harmonise the individual discrepancies in each legal system. The upcoming European Data Protection Regulation is just one example, to allow data to freely flow from one European state to another, without one country over-egging the privacy pudding.