Despite all essential awareness against the crime against women and girls, it is the fact that the growing reach of internet, the rapid spread of mobile information and communication technologies and the wide diffusion of social media have presented new opportunities and enabled various efforts to address violence against women and girls.
A workshop on ‘Cyber Crimes against women: Challenges posed by the Social Networking’ organised by the Faculty of Law, Jamia Millia Islamia in the university campus.
Senior Lawyer, Pavan Duggal has said that Smart phones and
Social Media can be new tools of cyber crimes against women. He advised women
to use their smart phones, internet and other such platforms with utmost care
and not divulge their personal details on them.
Speaking at a workshop on ‘Cyber Crimes against women:
Challenges posed by the Social Networking’
organised by the Faculty of Law, Jamia Millia Islamia in the university
campus here, he specifically addressed women students and said cyber bullying
in educational institutions has become a big problem and as of now there is no
dedicated legislation to deal with it.
Pro-Vice Chancellor, Prof Shahid Ashraf, who presided over
the function, said violence against women and girls through cyber space is
emerging as a global problem with serious implications for societies and
economies around the world.
Suggesting that Smart Phones, which Duggal described as
‘’sitting bombs’’, should be used only as a phone and not as a camera and
should not be synced with Cloud, Duggal
said that WhatsApp, Facebook, Twitter, internet and other social
networking sites have become a
convenient tool to target women.
Referring to increasing number of cyber crimes against women
by hacking their account thus
causing harassment , anxiety and
agony to them , he said that they have
to protect themselves by not divulging too much of their personnel details.
He also said that women should be studiously careful of
their surroundings particularly their place of work as there had been instances
of spy camera being used to film them.
“Your security is in your hands,’’ he said.
Prof Ashraf said violence against women and girls knows no
boundaries, cutting across borders, race, culture and income groups, profoundly
harming victims, people around them and the society as a whole.
The growing reach of internet, the rapid spread of mobile
information and communication technologies and the wide diffusion of social
media have presented new opportunities and enabled various efforts to address
violence against women and girls, he said.
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