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Do you get unwanted text messages, email messages, you get a live flows or see personal photos published on the Internet without your permission?
If so, you can become a victim of online observation, behavior on the Internet, which is becoming more and more frequent in the UK.
A new study published in the British journal of criminology showed that online monitoring increases higher speed than traditional types of observation.
The study studied the answers of almost 147,800 people who responded to the investigation of crime in England and Wales. Investigations were asked about the prevalence and perception of online observation, physical observation and cyber monitoring from 2012 to 2020.
The State Prosecutor General of the Crown of Great Britain Describes Cyberstalking as “threatening behavior or undesirable approach”, considered on someone on the Internet. It can be combined with other types of subsequent or persecution.
According to the office, cypresses may include threatening or undesirable text messages and emails, live conversations or publishing photos with photographs of a particular person, his or her children or at the workplace on social networks.
Crimes Cyberspace are those that do not depend on the technology, but have changed significantly from this, such as cyber socialization, terrorism or virtual mobing.
During the eight or years of period, 1.7% of respondents said they had experienced an online resort, from 1% in 2012.
Cyberstalking is characterized as “wrong, but not a crime
Despite the fact that physical harassment remains generally more frequent, an increase by 70% of the online persecution over the eight -year period was the only type with a “significant” increase in time, researchers said.
Complaints of physical persecution increased by 15%, and the persecution through cyberspace has actually decreased during this period.
According to the study, women, young people and LGBTK+ people are more likely to declare that they were subjected to an online monitor than other groups.
Almost half of the respondents who experienced online medical investigation last year said that their experience was “wrong, but not a crime,” that the authors found that this could affect the number of people who inform about their experience in police authorities.
“There is a clear gap between the experimental experience of cyber -catching and how it is perceived legally and socially,” said Madeline Yankiky, one of his authors studyAnd the researcher in the group of violence, healthcare and society at the University College, London.
“This not only affects whether the victims are looking for help, but also how the police react and other services,” he added.
According to Jenniki, part of the problem may be that young people are “so common in electronic monitoring that they do not consider it a crime.”
Researchers said that the UK government should improve state education, clarify legal definitions and provide additional support to the victims of online observations.