Directive 2013/40/EU of the European Parliament and of the… Article 5

Illegal data interference

Article 5

Member States shall take the necessary measures to ensure that deleting, damaging, deteriorating, altering or suppressing computer data on an information system, or rendering such data inaccessible, intentionally and without right, is punishable as a criminal offence, at least for cases which are not minor.

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