Last Tuesday "Ley Fayad" was presented to the Mexican Senate, a project that consists in a federal law that prevents and punishes cyber-crimes. It was proposed by PRI deputy, Omar Fayad.
R3D, a non-governmental organization that defends the digital rights, has analyzed "Ley Fayad" and claims it will practicly criminalize all activity on the Internet. They also say its ambiguous and opens the possibility that all online activity is considered a crime.
One the articles in the law establishes: " Anyone who willfully destroy, disable, damage or perform any act that alters the functioning of a computer system or any of its components, shall be liable to a penalty of five to fifteen years in prison and a fine of up to one thousand days of minimum wage".
As everyone knows that there are so many behaviors that can be considered as an alteration of the operation of an informatic system. The document leads to many interpretations of what can be considered altering codes, information and systems.
The department of federal security has been working in this project too, in order to introduce a new cyber-police system that avoids crimes in the Internet. But what this law brings is the possibility that federals control the content everyone uploads without any court order.
Even though there is no date of approval yet, citizens are protesting against it because it will violate the right to expression.
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