Saudi Arabia sets penalties for cybercrimes

Saudi Arabia said on March 26 that it will impose one-year prison sentences and fines of 500,000 riyals ($133,000) for Internet hacking and misuse of mobile telephone cameras, such as taking unauthorised pictures.
The cabinet said in a statement that it approved a bill on information technology crimes proposed last year by the kingdom's quasi-parliament, the advisory Shura assembly.
The bill would penalise "illegal entry into an Internet site or entering a site in order to change its design, destroy it or amend it", it said in a statement published by state media.