New Regulations to Protect Digital Identity

In particular, this law introduced a chapter on “Digital Identity”, which includes some new misdemeanors.

One of these is the unauthorized dissemination of intimate images. A provision of the Code now provides that anyone who disseminates, publishes, distributes, facilitates, assigns and/or provides to third parties images, recordings and/or films which are intimate in nature, without consent and through electronic communications, transfer of data, websites and/or any other means of communication, may be punished by a fine ranging from 400 to 1950 fixed units (currently valued at ARS 17.85 each), 15 days of work or 3 to 10 days of arrest.

In addition, the Code now includes a provision which punishes digital harassment. This section states that anyone who harasses someone else through digital means may be punished by a fine ranging from 160 to 800 fixed units, 3 to 10 days of work in public service, or 1 to 5 days of arrest.

Lastly, Law No. 6128 also included in the Code a misdemeanor regarding identity theft. This provision punishes anyone who uses or creates a fake identity with the image or data of another person, through electronic communications, transfers of data, websites and/or any other means of communication, with a fine ranging from 160 to 400 fixed units, 1 to 5 days of work in public service or 1 to 5 days of arrest.