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CYBERSTALKING - digital violence

Hello everyone! Today I will continue to write about Digital Violence. Did you check my first text about digital violence? Here: https://read.cash/@AngryKoala/digital-violence-146cf23e The subject for today is ****CYBERSTALKING****, a form of digital violence. **Stalking** is unwanted obsessive attention to a specific person. Physical stalking can involve following, secret surveillance, persistent and manipulative calling, and texting, and other means of approaching the victim unexpectedly. What is ****cyberstalking****?

In the digital world, cyberstalkers are driven by the same intention – to embarrass, threaten, or harass their victims. However, they primarily do it with online technology. Using technology, it monitors, spies on, harasses, or misuses another person's data for a certain period of time in order to intimidate or blackmail them. Everything on the Internet can be used by cyberstalkers to make inappropriate contact with their victims (email, social networks, instant messaging, personal data available online, everything people share online).

Examples of cyberstalking: Browsing about you Catfishing Monitoring location check-ins on social media Visiting you virtually via Google Maps Street View Hijacking your webcam Looking at geotags to track your location etc. It is important to know what is the term "cyberstalking" and be able to recognize this phenomenon on the Internet. In this way, we can protect ourselves and others. Let the internet be a safe place. Have you ever heard of cyberstalkers? Do you recognize any of the cyberstalker methods? Feel free to comment and share your experience and opinion.

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