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Posted: Mon Jan 20, 2025 7:20 am
n his official response to the draft law, Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Grigorenko states that he supports the expansion of guarantees for the protection of citizens' rights to personal inviolability, but points out that the draft law requires significant revision. According to his explanation, the legislation already provides for the protection of rights to privacy, personal and family secrets in civil, criminal proceedings and proceedings on administrative offences, and the explanatory note does not contain data proving the ineffectiveness of the regulation.
The new bill is not the first senegal whatsapp resource attempt by deputies to combat stalking and cyberstalking. The New People party already submitted a bill on stalking to the State Duma in October 2023 - deputies proposed to prohibit the aggressor from approaching the victim. It was rejected, the party is finalizing the bill. In June 2024, the State Duma held a round table on the bill on stalking, which was attended by deputies, lawyers, representatives of the Russian Orthodox Church, bloggers and victims of stalking. According to members of the New People, they were supported by representatives of the LDPR and United Russia. At the moment, the faction has prepared two bills that introduce articles on intrusive stalking into the Code of Administrative Offenses and the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation.
What is cyberstalking?
CEO of cloud provider Nubes Vasily Stepanenko explained that social networks are a potential tool for stalking, since profile photos can be used to determine a person’s social circle, and messengers can be used to identify a person’s location. Angara Security brand protection expert Maria Mikhailova believes that, in addition to social networks, other resources provide a lot of information for cyberstalkers: universities publish lists of applicants, companies talk about their employees, etc.
"There are bots that help aggregate information about a person for money, including information leaked to the Internet, such as car numbers, addresses for receiving goods via delivery, e-mail, mobile phone number, etc.," explained Vasily Stepanenko. Maria Mikhailova said that after receiving personal data, the attacker can disclose the data on publicly available resources and create pages that look like the victim.
Vasily Stepanenko also named photographing the victim and publishing the photos on the Internet for intimidation as one of the types of cyberstalking.
Maria Mikhailova added that stalkers can create fake profiles to monitor the victim on social networks, leave comments, and write personal messages.
Head of the Information Security Department at iTPROTECT Kai Mikhailov added that in some cases, stalkers steal passwords and other information. With certain manipulations, stalkers can gain authorized access to both messengers and the camera of personal devices, such as a laptop.
How to Protect Yourself from Cyberstalking
The new bill is not the first senegal whatsapp resource attempt by deputies to combat stalking and cyberstalking. The New People party already submitted a bill on stalking to the State Duma in October 2023 - deputies proposed to prohibit the aggressor from approaching the victim. It was rejected, the party is finalizing the bill. In June 2024, the State Duma held a round table on the bill on stalking, which was attended by deputies, lawyers, representatives of the Russian Orthodox Church, bloggers and victims of stalking. According to members of the New People, they were supported by representatives of the LDPR and United Russia. At the moment, the faction has prepared two bills that introduce articles on intrusive stalking into the Code of Administrative Offenses and the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation.
What is cyberstalking?
CEO of cloud provider Nubes Vasily Stepanenko explained that social networks are a potential tool for stalking, since profile photos can be used to determine a person’s social circle, and messengers can be used to identify a person’s location. Angara Security brand protection expert Maria Mikhailova believes that, in addition to social networks, other resources provide a lot of information for cyberstalkers: universities publish lists of applicants, companies talk about their employees, etc.
"There are bots that help aggregate information about a person for money, including information leaked to the Internet, such as car numbers, addresses for receiving goods via delivery, e-mail, mobile phone number, etc.," explained Vasily Stepanenko. Maria Mikhailova said that after receiving personal data, the attacker can disclose the data on publicly available resources and create pages that look like the victim.
Vasily Stepanenko also named photographing the victim and publishing the photos on the Internet for intimidation as one of the types of cyberstalking.
Maria Mikhailova added that stalkers can create fake profiles to monitor the victim on social networks, leave comments, and write personal messages.
Head of the Information Security Department at iTPROTECT Kai Mikhailov added that in some cases, stalkers steal passwords and other information. With certain manipulations, stalkers can gain authorized access to both messengers and the camera of personal devices, such as a laptop.
How to Protect Yourself from Cyberstalking