Every second in India, a woman becomes a victim of cybercrime and online platforms are now the new platform where a women's safety is being challenged every second. Cyber crimes such as trolling, abusing, threatening, stalking, defaming, stalking, taking revenge and talking obscene things exist in the world. In cybercrime against women, the impact is more mental than physical whereas the focus of laws ensuring safety of women is more on physical than mental harm.
Some of the major famous cybercrimes have put thousands of women in various health issues like depression, high blood pressure and due to e-assault women are suffering from diseases like anxiety, heart disease and thyroid.
The major cyber crimes are given below:
Cyberstalking: Cyberstalking is on the rise and is most likely to be directed towards women. Cyberstalking is a method of using the internet to harass someone for online harassment and online abuse. A cyber stalker does not directly put the victim in physical danger, but monitors the victim's online activity to gather information, threatens in various forms. The anonymity of online interactions reduces the possibility of anonymity and makes cyberstalking more common than physical stalking.
o Defamation: Cyber defamation includes both defamation and mental stress. This includes publishing defamatory information about the person on a website or circulating it among the social and friends of the victim or organization, an easy way to ruin the reputation of a woman by causing her mental agony and pain. Is.
• E-mail spoofing: This refers to an email that appears to be originating from a name but the sender is someone else. It can cause monetary loss.
Under the Information and Technology Act, 2000, touts and cyber criminals can be booked under several sections for breaching one's privacy:
• Section 67 deals with publishing or transmitting obscene material in electronic form. The earlier section in I.T.A. A. A was extended as of 2008 to include child pornography and the maintaining of records by someone else.
• Section 66A: Sending objectionable message by means of communication service, causing annoyance etc. Sending email to annoy or deceive the recipient about the origin of such message (commonly known as IP or email spoofing) It's all included here. The punishment for these acts is imprisonment of up to three years or a fine.
• Section 66B: Dishonestly stolen computer resource or communication device with imprisonment of up to three years or fine of one lakh rupees or both.
section 66C; Theft of electronic signature or other identity document like password or electronic signature etc. of others without their knowledge.
• Section 66D: Cheating by person using computer resource or communication device shall be punished with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to three years and shall also be liable to fine which may extend to one lakh rupees .
• Section 66E: Breach of privacy - Publishing or disseminating a private area of a person without his consent. For this, imprisonment of three years or fine of two lakh rupees or both can be done.
• Section 66F: Cyber terrorism - Intent to endanger the unity, integrity, or security of the nation and to deny access to a computer resource to any person authorized or to attempt to enter or enter a computer resource without authorization Keep.
• Section 72: Secrecy and punishment for breach of confidentiality.
Section 72A: Punishment for disclosing information in the course of a lawful contract.
• Section 441 IPC: This section deals with criminal trespass.
● Section 354D: This section deals with deadlock. It defines stalker as a man who follows a woman and tries to make contact with her, monitors every activity done by the woman while using digital media.
In today's world of technology, where internet is a boon for us, there are many areas where it also takes the form of a curse. In today's world of social media, we should take very careful steps.
