I did a little research outside America, and its from my home country, the Philippines. The government started this Cybercrime Prevention Act of 2012 which aims to address legal issues concerning online interactions and the internet in the Philippines. Among the cybercrime offenses included in the bill are cybersquatting, cyber sex, child pornography, identity theft, illegal access to date and libel.
I researched some problems and issues that occured and has a relation with this law. One of those reports is about a teenage girl which identity was hidden, was blackmailed by his boyfriend using facebook. The story was they broke up, and it was because of the girl. The girl stated that during their relationship, she sends nude pictures of her to her boyfriend. They even recorded videos of them having sexual intercourse together. When they broke up, her boyfriend posted this pictures and videos on his facebook account which gave problems to her. It spread through facebook, and even her friends saw it. The guy was blackmailing her to comeback to him, if she wont, he will post more stuff of them together on facebook. But the girl reported what the guy did to the police and they arrested that guy for doing this malicious thing. Even though it was deleted from the internet, people who saw those pictures and videos of her would still think of something, maybe bad, about her. (I have the link for the news report but it's in tagalog, you watch it here.)
Another real life problem is when a 15 year old boy who allegedly blackmailed and extorted 15,000 pesos from another teenager throught the social networking site Facebook. He signed up as a girl, named Yuri Kimberly and talked to a schoolmate. "Yuri Kimberly" asked the guy to send him nude pictures of himself. And after he sent those pictures, Yuri (the guy) started blackmailing him and was asking for 15,000 pesos. But then the NBI (National Bureau of Investigation) Philipiines started to track down this poser, and was arrested. The offender faced charges of violation of Republic Act 7610 or the Anti-Child Abuse Act and extortion but he was entrusted to his parents because of his minor age. (You can read the news article here.)
Those are just some of the media problems that I researched. But I bet there's alot more out there, not only in the Philippines and with alot of types. But this problems occured using the social networking site Facebook. So, people should really be careful nowadays. People should really be careful on what they post not only in the internet, they should include sending files to other people cause they might use it someday against you.
I wonder if this law will help. The guy in the video is concerned about "free speech" aspects. Can a law protect people from their own misguided trusting instincts?
ReplyDeleteI think it will but there's alot of people whos against this law because it will just limit their freedom of speech. But it's the internet, anyone can use all your posts either to compliment you or to use it against you. A law can protect those kind of trusting insticts in a way where people can't do business insinde the web. And it's just common sense if you would trust someone over the internet and just give away informations about yourself to people you dont know in real life.
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