[citw150] Re: CITW150 L3 Q5
- From: isyusuf <isyusuf@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: citw150@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 18 Jun 2005 23:38:51 -0700 (PDT)
Taufiqul and other Classmates,
Cyberstalking is more than just stalking as explained eloquently in your piece.
What about all these cookies or bots that major corporations insert in our
paths along the internet traffic that tracts where we have been, what we buy,
how much we spend, where we live, where our children go to school all in the
name of being able to send targetted advertising our way? In Telephone era,
this is called cold calling and to stem that we now have no call list. How
about no cookie list? People argue that one can disable cookies voluntarily and
block this or that, how about desiging the sites so that the default should be
no cookies and when we want them activate them?
isyusuf@xxxxxxxxx
"Tomorrow is today returning through another door" - anonymous
taufiqul islam <taufiqul_islam2005@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
The US department of justice defined cyberstalking as ?to the use of the
Internet, e-mail, or other electronic communications devices to stalk another
person. Stalking generally involves harassing or threatening behavior that an
individual engages in repeatedly, such as following a person, appearing at a
person's home or place of business, making harassing phone calls, leaving
written messages or objects, or vandalizing a person's property.?
Its getting a increasing concern for the internet users. Statistics shows that
In the United States
(http://www.usdoj.gov/criminal/cybercrime/cyberstalking.htm)
one out of every 12 women (8.2 million) and one out of every 45 men (2
million) have been stalked at some time in their lives.
One percent of all women and 0.4 percent of all men were stalked during the
preceding 12 months.
Women are far more likely to be the victims of stalking than men - nearly
four out of five stalking victims are women. Men are far more likely to be
stalkers - 87 percent of the stalkers identified by victims in the survey were
men.
Women are twice as likely as men to be victims of stalking by strangers and
eight times as likely to be victims of stalking by intimates.
If you are cyberstlked you can contact any of these organization to get help
from:
CyberAngels: www.cyberangels.org.
GetNetWise: www.getnetwise.org.
International Association of Computer Investigative Specialists: www.iacis.com.
National Center for Victims of Crime: www.ncvc.org.
National Cybercrime Training Partnership: www.cybercrime.org.
Privacy Rights Clearinghouse: www.privacyrights.org.
Search Group, Inc.: www.search.org.
Working to Halt Online Abuse (WHOA): www.haltabuse.org.
Taufiqul Islam
taufiqul_islam2005@xxxxxxxxx
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