New cyber law to take effect within seven days: Law Adviser

The Cyber Security Law was approved at a meeting of the interim government's advisory council. The law will be finalized this week after vetting by the Law Ministry. As a result, the new cybersecurity law will come into effect within a week.

Law Adviser Dr Asif Nazrul said this while addressing a press briefing at the Foreign Service Academy here after a meeting of the council of advisers on Tuesday (May 6).

Nine sections have been scraped from the Cyber Security Act 2023, he said, adding that about 95 percent of cases, filed under the law, were registered under the nine black sections and those cases will be cancelled automatically.

Releasing contents on repression and sexual harassment of women and children and spreading religious hatred, which exaggerates violence, have been identified as punishable offenses under the ordinance, the law adviser said.

He said committing crimes using artificial intelligence has been recognised as offenses for the first time in the South Asia.