The “Parliamentary” website, which specializes in legislative and parliamentary affairs, monitored in a report entitled: “Welcome to the month of fasting… random messages that are pumped in abundance on your “phone” with the advent of Ramadan,” in which it reviewed how the legislator considered this type of messages a crime of “disturbing others.” “Harassment” is punishable by up to 6 months’ imprisonment and a fine of 100,000 pounds, and the crime is not resolved by reconciliation.
In fact, with the advent of the holy month of Ramadan, citizens receive and receive SMS messages intensively, consisting of songs or congratulatory messages, whether from individuals or companies for the purpose of congratulations or advertising, which constitutes an inconvenience to a large segment of citizens, as the phenomenon of sending random messages is widespread. Via mobile phone, from the sample of “Ramadan is here” and “Welcome, welcome to the month of fasting”, which many considered “annoying” due to the frequent sending and pumping of these messages intensively throughout the day.
The process of continuously pumping such annoying messages during the period of holidays, occasions, etc. raises a legal problem, which is whether there is a penalty for people who send such messages extensively, whether by imprisonment or a fine, considering that such an act is considered psychologically harmful, and what is the relationship between this? The matter of violating personal privacy? Do these companies or individuals face the consequences of these annoying messages in accordance with the Anti-Information Technology Crimes Law No. 175 of 2018?
In the following report, we shed light on the problem of sending annoying text messages via mobile phones, Facebook, and WhatsApp from a legal perspective under the pretext of congratulating the month of Ramadan in particular, in accordance with the Anti-Information Technology Crimes Law No. 175 of 2018 and Article 25 of By protecting the sanctity of citizens’ private lives from annoying text messages sent by a number of companies, the most prominent of which was an insect extermination company. In its ruling No. 647 of 2019, the Economic Court fined a private company an amount of 900 thousand pounds.
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