What is cyberstalking?
The term cyberstalking concerns the act of persecution of an individual or group by electronic means, especially the Internet. Cybestalkers use communication skills and access to information provided by the Internet for monitoring, requesting, defamation and otherwise annoy their cyber sacrifice, which can be an individual or group. Cybereststalkers can use common electronic means such as search engines, bulletin boards, social networking sites, e -mail and other tools to monitor their victims' activity. Cybestullking may also include illegal means such as computer hacking to break the victim's personal data or attack the hardware and victim data of viruses and other electronic violations. Following the victim's Internet protocol (IP) is also a common form of cyber negotiation, used by the Cybereststalkers to find their victim's home address.
Contact or request a kyb victimErnetics or their collaborators is a common form of harassment in cybertalking. Since the arrival of chatting rooms, instruments with instant messenger and internet networks such as MySpace and Facebook, children and adolescents have become particularly endangered for cyberspatking, whether their peers are focused on cyberbullying or requested by sexual predators. In order to fight this, several criminal proceedings have been organized by work groups that include individuals who, as children or adolescents online online, are looking for and capturing children's predators. Dateline's NBC show, which catches the predator, is a popular example of such an operation of Cybeberstating Sting, which represents online sexual predators who are led to a house where they believe that the youth awaits the host of the show.
Slander is a particularly fertile part of cybertalking because of the ease with which Cyberstalker can publish slander accusations on the web in the world while retainingtheir anonymity and thus avoid the consequences. Cybeststallkers often set up websites or blogs that specifically publish slander information about their victims, which can then be picked up in a simple search engine name, harming their reputation. Cybeststallkers can also introduce an online victim to distribute pornographic, derogatory or otherwise slander information called victims.
In 1999, California became the first state to the Act on the Act on Anti-Cybers. Since then, states such as Arizona, Alaska, Alabama, Connecticut, Florida, Illinois, New York, New Hampshire Oklahoma and Wyoming forbidden forms of cyberstalking within their larger laws on counter -mining and harassment.