The legal framework for criminal offenses in the electronic administrative system in the light of the Egyptian, Kuwaiti and Emirati legislation.

Prof. Dr. Sam Suleiman Dallah, Saja Ghoneim Alzaid

doi:10.21608/mjle.2024.392763

The legal framework for criminal offenses in the electronic administrative system in the light of the Egyptian, Kuwaiti and Emirati legislation.

Document Type : Original Article

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Saja Ghoneim Alzaid Prof. Dr. Sam Suleiman Dallah

College of Law – University of Sharjah

10.21608/mjle.2024.392763

Abstract

The research aimed to analyze the legal framework for criminal offenses in the electronic administrative system for public servants in three countries: Egypt, Kuwait and the United Arab Emirates. The research aims to understand the legislation and regulations in force in these countries, and to analyze the laws and regulations related to criminal offenses in the electronic administrative system. The research reached a number of results, the most important of which are: that the Egyptian legislator was better at stipulating the ruling to dismiss the public employee in the event that he committed a crime during and because of his job, which enhances the trust and assumed integrity in occupying public positions. And that the Kuwaiti legislator in Kuwaiti Law No. (63) of 2015 in the matter of combating information technology crimes did not address the clarification of what is meant by government information and the confidentiality of information and its definition, as stipulated by the Egyptian and Emirati legislators, and the absence of a special text criminalizing the reluctance of a legal person to inform the official authorities in the event Being a victim of cybercrime in Egyptian, Emirati and Kuwaiti law. The research recommended the need for the Kuwaiti legislator to adopt criminalization with realism, clarity, and unambiguity, by avoiding flexible patterns and images of types of behavior in the field of electronic crimes in Kuwaiti Law No. (63) of 2015 regarding combating information technology crimes so that the foundations of objective protection do not contradict or conflict with each other, taking into account the future perspective to keep pace with the rapid development in the forms, patterns and tools of (informational) cybercrime. The Kuwaiti legislator should also clarify what is meant by government information and the confidentiality of information and define it accurately in Kuwaiti Law No. (63) of 2015 regarding combating information technology crimes, to ensure the clarity of the legal rules and the necessary protection for this data and information, similar to Egyptian and Emirati law.

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