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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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