Category: Stalking
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Determining The Difference In Perceptions Of Cyberstalking And Stalking Behaviours
Technology facilitated sexual violence (TFSV) defines a range of behaviours where digital technologies are used to facilitate various sexually based offences, both virtually and face-to-face (Henry & Powell, 2016). A form of this is Cyberstalking. The phenomenon of cyberstalking has emerged from the predatory nature of conventional stalking delivered through the use of electronic communication…
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Facebook Stalking: Types And Preventions
Facebook stalking is defined as where one individual (user) use facebook to follow the online activities of another user on facebook. It is defined when a singles or a person causes the emotionally distress, unnecessary fear for safety of others life or other individual. A stalker can be any past (girlfriend or boyfriend) or any…
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Gender Neutralising Stalking Laws
This blog focuses on a proposal for gender neutralising section 354(d) that is stalking law. This section under IPC cant qualify the test of intelligible differentia test laid down by Justice PN Bhagwati in Maneka gandhi case as a gender cannot be a basis of differentiation and article 14 also ensures equal protection of right…
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The Definition Of Cyberstalking
Cyberstalking is harassment or stalking that happens through online channels. Social media, yemail and forums are a few of the online channels. It must be stopped for good. People will sometimes cyberstalk people so they can get information to blackmail them. Cyber stalking doesnt just stop at that. On social media if you make multiple…