\u201cElectronic impersonation\u201d is now a crime in the Commonwealth.<\/p>\n
Gov. Ralph DLG Torres has signed Senate bill 19-64, now Public Law 19-33, last Feb. 11 to establish the crime of electronic impersonation and set penalties and fines ranging from $2,000 to $10,000 and a year to five years in jail.<\/p>\n
The new law states that \u201ce-personation\u201d activities exist in the Commonwealth and that many have complained about people hacking into their social network profiles or creating a fake profile to impersonate other people.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe people must be on notice that the internet cannot be used as a forum to harm, intimidate, threaten, or defraud other people,\u201d the bill states.<\/p>\n
The law throws concern to the thieves, scam artists, or vengeful people who pretend to be someone they are not to engage in cyber-bullying, to defraud, and or to gain confidential information.<\/p>\n
The law cites an example from 2011, in New Jersey, where a woman charged with identify theft allegedly used her ex-husband\u2019s personal information to create a Facebook page to impersonate him, a narcotics detective, and spread false admissions to drug use, hiring of prostitutes, and contracting sexual diseases.<\/p>\n
The law also cites another landmark case of cyber-bullying where a Missouri parent created a MySpace account to taunt a 13-year-old neighbor who was a friend of her daughter with the professed love of an imaginary boy. The 13-year old committed suicide, after the mother, through the account, told the teenager that the, \u201cThe world would be a better place without you.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThis type of conduct is unacceptable and must be criminalized,\u201d the new law states.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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