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l Avoid Retaliation: Do not engage with or respond to the bully, as it may escalate the situation.
l Seek Support: Share your experience with parents, teachers, or trusted friends for guidance and
emotional support.
Cyber Stalking
Cyber stalking refers to the crime of using the Internet, e-mail,
or other types of electronic communications to harass or
threaten other people by following them online.
Cyber stalking involves sending harassing, absurd and nasty
text messages, unethical videos and embarrassing pictures on
social media or through mails. It also includes, faking someone’s
profile or making a fake profile with wrong intentions and trying
to befriend someone for immoral purposes. It is a punishable
offence which comes under the purview of cyber law. Many
citizens are being punished for indulging in such immoral
activities. We must avoid getting involved in such activities.
Protection Against Cyber Stalking
If you find any such situation of cyber stalking, then inform the stalker that you want him / her to stop all
such communications immediately. To take action against the stalker, you should:
l Keep Evidence: Do not delete any email or other messages of the stalker and also keep a printout
of the same.
l Save all records: If there is any written threat by the stalker then keep it as a record. If the threats
have been verbal only, then keep a record of the date, time and circumstances of those threats.
l Contact stalker’s ISP: If Internet Service Providers (ISP) have concrete proof that any of their users
has been using their service for harassing others, then they should immediately stop providing
services to such people.
l Keep Records: Keeps a record of all the complaints that you have made to an ISP or agency and
also safely keep their official reports for future use.
Reporting Cybercrime
Cybercrime is a new trend of criminalisation in our society. Governments across the globe are very
strict against cybercrimes. In India, CERT-In (Indian Computer Emergency Response Team, Department
of Electronics and Information Technology and Ministry of Communication & Information Technology)
issues guidelines for preventing cyber-crimes on regular basis.
CERT-In responds to the incidents that are related to computer or data security breaches. It takes the
following measures in the area of cyber security:
l It does collection, analysis and dissemination of information on cyber incidents.
l It forecasts and alerts about cyber security probable incidents.
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