Panama: A Country with the Need for a Legistlation on Cybercrime (Panamá, un país con la necesidad de una legislación sobre cibercrimen)

The dizzying development of new Information and Communication Technologies in recent years have facilitated many aspects of everyday human life. However, this deployment has also affected a rebound in crime rates associated with cyberspace.

Increasing access to the Internet and technologies have required determining legal regulations, from the recognition of human rights online to the typification of cyber crimes. However, this task has not been easy, derived from the difficulty of determining different aspects of the commission and persecution of cybercrime.

As a consequence, the Council of Europe decided to initiate the process to determine a catalog of cybercrime and thus achieve A standardization for the prosecution and criminal sanction of these behaviors, is how in 2001 the first international treaty regulating criminal conduct committed in cyberspace, the Convention on Cybercrime, was approved.

This report aims to analyze the current process of the implementation of the Budapest Convention in the Panamanian legal framework, highlighting the weaknesses in the projects of reform of national legislation, in substantive matters and processes