Sec. 33.07 of the Texas Penal Code makes it a third degree felony if a person uses the name or persona of another to create a web page or post on a commercial networking site without permission and with the intent to harm, defraud, intimidate, or threaten another person.
The code section makes it a Class A misdemeanor to send an email, IM, text or similar communication that references any identifying information belonging to any person without obtaining the person’s consent, with the intent to cause the recipient to believe that the other person authorized the communication, and with the intent to harm or defraud any person. If the intent is to solicit responses by emergency services, then the act is a third degree felony.
(Full text of this statute was not available at press time.)
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