{"data":{"id":"us-va/va.-code-18.2-152.15","jurisdiction":"us-va","citation":"Va. Code § 18.2-152.15","heading":"Encryption used in criminal activity","body":"Any person who willfully uses encryption to further any criminal activity shall be guilty of an offense which is separate and distinct from the predicate criminal activity and punishable as a Class 1 misdemeanor.\"Encryption\" means the enciphering of intelligible data into unintelligible form or the deciphering of unintelligible data into intelligible form.1999, c. 455.","path":["Title 18.2. CRIMES AND OFFENSES GENERALLY","Chapter 5. CRIMES AGAINST PROPERTY","Article 7.1. COMPUTER CRIMES"],"source_url":"https://law.lis.virginia.gov/vacode/18.2-152.15/","current_through":"9/4/2026","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-09-04T15:14:34Z","sha256":"65ac80571e9bd064920f71631fd3a3d572d3351eee831a594776cbbfe709e069","source_id":"us-va","stale":true,"prev":"us-va/va.-code-18.2-152.14","next":"us-va/va.-code-18.2-152.16"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}