Tag: online harassment

Pakistani women face most harassment on Facebook, WhatsApp: report

A report released by the Digital Rights Foundation (DRF) claims that complaints of online harassment by women in Pakistan are mostly in reference to...

Cases of WhatsApp hacking, blackmailing surge

LAHORE: As many as 2,302 complaints of online harassment, violence and bullying were received in last two years since the establishment of Cyber Harassment...

5,500 cybercrime complaints registered with FIA in Lahore this year

--Sources say people avoid filing online complaints due to slow, time-consuming process --FIA says process not slow, cybercrime cases are treated differently LAHORE: The Federal Investigation Agency...

Politico-religious hate speech steers social media ahead of polls

--Digital activity of several fronts manipulate narratives by igniting political and religious violence against rivals --Human-bots are also being used to sexually harass female journalists,...

Govt urged to address online harassment of female journalists, activists

If a woman’s picture is photoshopped in a way that is deemed offensive, the blame will always be hers and she will be perceived as someone having a ‘bad’ character.

Facebook testing feature that detects users impersonating other accounts

Courtesy Mashable With a surge in several forms of online harassment, Facebook is now working on a new tool to help stem one source of...