{"id":1683,"date":"2007-03-28T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2007-03-28T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/2007\/03\/28\/saudi-government-gets-tough-on-cybercrime-and-criminals\/"},"modified":"2021-12-30T11:39:48","modified_gmt":"2021-12-30T11:39:48","slug":"saudi-government-gets-tough-on-cybercrime-and-criminals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/2007\/03\/28\/saudi-government-gets-tough-on-cybercrime-and-criminals\/","title":{"rendered":"Saudi government gets tough on cybercrime and criminals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to the Saudi cabinet, there will be new harsher penalties for committing cybercrime inside the country. A bill that was passed on Monday, would charge people who commit crimes online with a $133,000 fine, and one year in prison. The cabinet said in a statement that it passed a proposal from the Shura assembly that was submitted last year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The internet is strictly monitored and censored in Saudi Arabia, with online pornographic material and politically themed websites blocked from public viewing.<\/p>\n<p>While the cabinet passed the proposal, the king must give the final approval.<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/tech.monstersandcritics.com\/news\/article_1283704.php\/Saudi_government_gets_tough_on_cybercrime_and_criminals<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1683","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-regulations"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1683","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1683"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1683\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4170,"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1683\/revisions\/4170"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}