Problems of the Libyan cybercrime law

Abstract

     The current era is described as the electronic age, because these crimes depend on informational data, in addition to the fact that these crimes are characterized by several characteristics that do not exist in traditional crimes. This is what prompted the Libyan legislator to intervene and issue a cybercrime law. However, he was not successful in that. Therefore, this study came to clarify the nature of these problems and the scientific solutions to confront them. At the beginning, Parliament was not successful in inferring laws that have nothing to do with the law, in addition to the existence of loose and stretchy phrases that give the authorities that apply the law wide discretionary powers.Also, freedom of expression, although it is guaranteed by local and international laws, is not absolute, which the law did not observe, and the comprehensive control that the law went to over actions and words made it subject to disapproval and criticism, and the law gave this matter to the National Authority for Safety and Information Security, which It does not have the status of a judicial officer. Finally, the bloggers and activists who criticized the law had their own motives and reasons for calling for the abolition of the law.