Offenses of tormenting people online, including online harassment, cyberbullying, publishing personal data, false emergency calls to send armed police, intrusion into video meetings, prank networks and crimes broadcast live. An offense belongs here when the definition is harm to a person through online conduct. It excludes sexual image abuse, which has its own group. Entries placed here are Online Harassment, Cyberbullying, Doxxing, Doxing, Swatting, Zoombombing, Pranknet and Livestreamed Crime.
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Cyberbullying (Wikipedia)
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Cyberbullying (cyberharassment or online bullying/harassment) is a form of bullying or harassment using electronic means.
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Cyberbullying (cyberharassment or online bullying/harassment) is a form of bullying or harassment using electronic means.
View the SourceSwatting (Wikipedia)
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Swatting is a form of criminal harassment that involves deceiving an emergency service (via such means as hoaxing an emergency services dispatcher) into sending a police or emergency response team to another person's location.
Livestreamed crime (Wikipedia)
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Livestreamed crime is a phenomenon in which criminal acts are publicly livestreamed on social media platforms such as Twitch or Facebook Live.
Wikipedia: Pranknet
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Pranknet, also known as Prank University, was an anonymous prank calling virtual community that was involved in a string of malicious pranks and instances of telephone harassment, especially during 2009-2011.
Doxing (Wikipedia)
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Doxing or doxxing is the act of providing personally identifiable information about an individual or organization, usually via the Internet and without their consent, and or with the intention of harassing or causing distress to the victim.
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Doxing or doxxing is the act of providing personally identifiable information about an individual or organization, usually via the Internet and without their consent, and or with the intention of harassing or causing distress to the victim.
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