Online molestation has existed for as long as online has exist , and as entree speed up up and expands , it ’s only become worse and more nuanced . A new released report from the Digital Rights Foundation , a feminist not-for-profit in Pakistan centre on digital exemption , spotlights timely datacollected on harassment in the country . None of the determination are particularly scandalous , but they do point to the latest troubling trends .
The data point comes from the foundation ’s cyber harassment helpline andspans two years , from December 2016 to November 2018 . accord to the report , Facebook- and WhatsApp - related complaints were the most coarse by a wide-eyed margin . There were 660 complaint related to Facebook , or 29 percentage of all complaints , and 220 charge regarding WhatsApp , which Facebook owns . The foundation notes that the most uncouth issues multitude are reaching out to the helpline for are the nonconsensual usage of information , blackmailing , hacking , unsolicited contact , and slander . The organization render legal counsel , digital security backing , and mental health direction for those who reach out .
The hotline find a astounding increase in complaints related to WhatsApp lately , according to the report , up from 2.9 percent of all complaints to 9.5 per centum in the last six calendar month . More specifically , in the past two months , there was a jump in report WhatsApp phishing calls , in which hackers posed as credible arrangement , like a secret plan show or a governing agency , so as to compromise exploiter ’ account .
Since the helpline launched at the end of 2016 , the nonprofit stated that it ’s receive 2,781 calls in amount with a spike in monthly calls last November . It ’s also receive 134 complaints by e-mail .
The close of the written report details some passably damning example of what some of the individual pass out to the helpline for . A 17 - year - old girl reached out for assistance after a hacker got into her Snapchat account and get at sexually explicit pic she had saved in Memories . The hacker threaten to leak the photo if she did n’t send off him more . Another woman — someone in the Pakistani amusement industry — had her intimate photos and television leak on porn internet site and societal networks without her consent by an X partner . finally , someone reached out to the helpline after an nameless individual plant up a simulated visibility online and sent minatory messages to her and her friends . An investigation let on that the harasser was her fiancé .
These findings are , of course , barely surprising or alone to women in Pakistan , but they sort out the growing issue among vulnerable community and chew over that they show no preindication of slowing down .
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