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Nairobi \u2014 The Court of Appeal of Kenya has declared Sections 22 and 23 of the Computer Misuse and Cybercrimes Act unconstitutional, citing vagueness and the risk of criminalising innocent individuals.<\/em><\/p>\n A three-judge bench comprising Korir Weldon Kipyegon, Aggrey Muchelule and Patrick Kiage overturned the provisions, arguing that their broad wording could easily be misused.<\/p>\n Under Section 22 of the Act, a person who intentionally publishes false, misleading or fictitious data or misinformation with…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a> Nairobi \u2014 The Court of Appeal of Kenya has declared Sections 22 and 23 of the Computer Misuse and Cybercrimes Act unconstitutional, citing vagueness and the risk of criminalising innocent individuals. A three-judge bench comprising Korir Weldon Kipyegon, Aggrey Muchelule and Patrick Kiage overturned the provisions, arguing that their broad wording could easily be misused. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":226221,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[250],"tags":[6991,258,256,8992,6185,50291,4688,430,257,21034,40523,254],"class_list":["post-226220","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-kenya","tag-act","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-appeal","tag-court","tag-cybercrimes","tag-kenya","tag-kenya-news","tag-news","tag-nullifies","tag-sections","tag-south-africa-today"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226220","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=226220"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226220\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/226221"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=226220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=226220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=226220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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