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What vulnerabilities do you face in cyberspace? Cyberbullying Cyberstalking Racial hatred Exposure to violent, disturbing and/or illegal material including child pornography Exposure to adult material not suitable for children Intrusions into privacy
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Cyber bullying Harassment using digital media such as websites, e-mail, chat rooms, social networking pages or instant messages
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Cyber stalking Repeated harassment using email, text messaging or other digital media with the intention of causing fear or intimidation
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What’s the difference between cyberbullying and cyberstalking Cyberbullying is a one time occurrence However reoccurrence is deemed cyberstalking
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When does it become illegal? If it becomes harassment that is illegal If someone makes threats against a person that are illegal
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LEGISLATION Australian Human Rights Commission Act 1986 Age Discrimination Act 2004 Disability Discrimination Act 1992 Racial Discrimination Act 1975 Sex Discrimination Act 1984 Criminal Code Stalking Amendment Act 1999 Crimes Amendment (Computer offences) Act 2001 Spam Act 2003
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Individual Rights These laws protect peoples human rights in accordance to article 3 of universal declaration of human rights concerning the rights to security of person and are able to apply to cases related to bullying and stalking. However with the rapid increase of technology, are these laws becoming outdated?
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Status Most law are archaic and are hard to apply to the different nature of the cyber space. The cyberspace evolve rapidly, even the current amendment might even be outdated now. Most incident happens overseas, right now there’s no global legislation that cover this area. Most law cover only a directed threat or attack but a lot of cyber bullying are posted for the public to see.
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Case study Save art from Rmit case Where the threat are posted on the Facebook wall therefore there is no directed threat to the victim
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