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Cyber Laws for Preventing Cyber Crimes Against Women in Canada

Cyber Laws for Preventing Cyber Crimes Against Women in Canada
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Copyright: 2012
Pages: 13
Source title: Cyber Crime and the Victimization of Women: Laws, Rights and Regulations
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Debarati Halder (Centre for Cyber Victim Counselling (CCVC), India)and K. Jaishankar (Manonmaniam Sundaranar University, India)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-60960-830-9.ch006

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Abstract

This chapter gives an overview of laws related to cyber crimes against in general and women in particular. Though there are no specific laws that were developed to mitigate crimes against women in cyber space, Canadian laws of physical space govern the cyber space crimes well. The various issues that are discussed in this chapter are: Cyber nonsexual offences against women and regulating laws in Canada, Online Stalking and related offences, Online harassment through modification of digital contents and misusing the same, Offensive communication against women, Cyber defamatory libel against women, Cyber hate propaganda against women and legal situation, Responsibilities of the ISPs, Cyber privacy and related offences against women, Regulating cyber sexual offences for women in Canada, and the problem of Obscenity and regulating laws.

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