The Public Prosecution (PP) explained today, through posts on its social media accounts, the penalties for IP address circumvention on the World Wide Web with the intention of committing a crime.
The post explains that the IP address of the world wide web is a digital identifier that is allocated for every IT means taking part in the WWW and used for the purposes of telecommunication.
According to Article 9 of the Federal Decree-Law No. 5 of 2012, concerning combatting IT crimes, and the amendments thereof, whoever circumvents IP address on the world wide web using a fake ad dress, an address which belongs to others, or any other means for the in tention of committing a crime or preventing the discovery thereof, shall be sentenced to temporary imprisonment and/or fined a monetary penalty of not less than AED500,000 and not more than AED 2 million.
Source: Emirates News Agency