Angola provides for the implementation of computer crimes in its penal code, according to the Deputy Attorney General of the Republic Mota Liz, who said that it is wrong to think that the essence of computer crime is news that is put on social networks that "so-and-so is this or that."
According to the Deputy Attorney General of the Republic, the question arose as to whether computer crimes should be included in the Penal Code or in separate legislation. Because, he explained, the Criminal Code generally contemplates the so-called classic Criminal Law, which has to do with life, property, which protects durable, stable, non-volatile legal goods that do not change easily.
Computer crimes aim to protect the contents of information technologies, telecommunications, social networks, as well as the anti-invasion and sabotage programs themselves, said Mota Liz.
The prosecutor also said that, the world today is a computerized world. ICT is part of our daily lives. They are an essential element of our development as human beings. Almost our lives can not imagine without the great information systems.
The intimacy of life, the dignity of the person, the good name, the reputation, are protected by other penal types. We find the insults, the defamation and the slander, said Mota Liz. In a didactic perspective, Mota Liz explained that if one person is speaking untruthful about another, that he is a bad professional, or a robber, a rapist, and knowing that they are untruths, that person is insulting him if he is speaking directly with that person.
Mota Liz added that in crimes against communication and computer systems, the aim is to sanction computer sabotage, computer fraud, computer fraud in telecommunications, illegitimate reproduction of programs. They are crimes intended to protect the content or the systems themselves.
Mota Liz explained that the so-called cyber crime are new types that were not foreseen in the 1886 Code, still in force in the country, because at that time there were no information and communication technologies (ICTs).
