Muscat: Couples in Oman were warned against tampering with their spouse's mobile phone.
“Spying on your spouse's mobile phone is illegal and punishable by the law”, said the Public Prosecution in the new issue of its publication “Society and Law”.
Under the 2011 cyber-crime law, convicted violators risk being sentenced from 1 to six months and fined OMR 500-1000.
The punishment would be aggravated in case the convict modifies, destroys, or distributes the data within the information system (phone, computer, tablet, etc.), particularly if the data is sensitive in nature.