PROTECTION OF WOMEN IN CYBER SPACE: IS IT ILLUSIONARY OR REALITY?
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Keywords, Cyberspace, VictimizationAbstract
“This is just the beginning, the beginning of the understanding that cyberspace has no limits, no boundaries” -Nicholas Negroponte1 The digital era is evident of drastic changes where billions of people across the world have tried bridging the gaps and are multiplying human potential. The credit goes to the world of information technology for bringing humans across the world closer by making it a global village: reliable and easily accessible. It has developed titanic positive potentials, but when these positive potentials are misused it may create havoc. Cyberspace refers to an online world where users have the mechanisms in place to transact any business or personal activity much more easily and freely as they can transact them in the physical world. Just with a single click of the mouse, the cyberspace has given us, the humans, a well-designed e-commerce system which has reduced inefficiencies with a better flow of information. But at the same time, it has resulted in certain social, political, moral implications which have made lives of many miserable. The main victims of cyberspace are women, who get exploited and harassed over social media and due to lack of evidences, or sometimes fear of defamation, and many such other reasons, the culprits are not made accountable for their misdeeds and justice is denied to the victims.The research paper aims to ascertain whether the laws available for the protection of women
in cyberspace is for real or is an illusion; whether the laws are sufficient to deal with cases of
victimization of women in cyberspace or not and what could be the recommendations and
suggestions, if any, to achieve the same.
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