Criminal Responsibility for Violating Information Privacy through Social Networking Sites

Abstract

Artificial intelligence has become more sophisticated recently, producing many physical applications that work through its operating systems, and have the ability to think, perceive and solve problems through self-learning from mistakes, experiences, and situations.

These systems made it easy for them to make decisions by collecting and analyzing data, and recognizing and translating texts. They were also able to act freely and independently, depending on the circumstances surrounding them, until they were able to emulate the human mind.

In fact, these applications have had many advantages, as they have been introduced in many areas of life, such as the economic, media, medical, judicial, military, etc.

However, the conduct of these systems may cause some damage to others, which they cause if they depart from the automated system or lose control over them for any reason, and it is difficult to confront them legally under traditional liability rules, whether civil or criminal, which may lead the law to make it un applicable in the near future because it is not suitable for the regulation of non-human or merged events between humans and artificial intelligence systems, and the law may lose its viability because it is not suitable for application at that time.

In this sense, legislation had to be kept abreast of the digital age, where technology took precedence over laws, and intervention to establish a legal regime that precisely defines how such systems and smart applications should be handled to counter the damage that might result from them had become inevitable, on the one hand, and recognition of a digital legal personality for those regimes that could differ on their own from the legal personality granted to a natural or legal person on the other.