~cyber law in Malaysia~

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.