Digital violence

There are various manifestations of digital violence. They include, amongst others:

• Defaming, ostracising, insulting and threatening people via mobile phones, computers and the Internet by sending harassing messages or knowingly spreading incorrect information;

• Assuming the identity of another person so as to write entries in chats, blogs and forums, or order goods and services;

• Taking pictures and filming victims in their own homes or particularly protected areas without their prior consent;

• Circulating private digital pictures, e.g. in social networks or on pornographic websites, without the affected person’s prior consent;

• Sending and passing on pornographic pictures and videos without the receiver’s prior consent;

• Spying on an individual and intercepting data with or without spyware;

• Locating and digital surveillance of people via PCs and mobile phones;

• Threatening to circulate intimate and possibly edited pictures and films so as to coerce the person involved into carrying out specific actions;

• Physical and sexual assaults aimed at making pictures and films and subsequently humiliating and controlling the victim even after the attack;

• Passing on private information through digital media at work or in training.