Cyberstalking
Make no mistake: this kind of harassment can be as frightening and real as being followed and watched in your neighborhood or in your home.
—former Vice President Al Gore1
11999 Report on Cyberstalking: A New Challenge to Law Enforcement and Industry, Department of Justice, August 1999, http://www.justice.gov/criminal/cybercrime/cyberstalking.htm.
Cyberstalking is using the Internet (or other electronic media) to harass individuals, groups, or organizations. Cyberstalking can manifest itself as threats, accusations, identify impersonation, and sexual solicitation. Social media allows for these types of attacks to be mounted anonymously and to spread quickly across multiple networks.
Many of these attacks cause extreme personal distress ...
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