Cyber crime “increasingly recurrent” in Portugal: “cyberbullying”, “stalking” and dissemination of sex videos skyrocket
The provisional data, still under consolidation, indicate that in 2021 alone, in Portugal, 368 reports of breaches of privacy were received through computerized meanscrime that “has been increasingly recurrent due to the exponential growth in the use of social networks”refers to PSP in a statement on the European Safer Internet Day, celebrated this Tuesday, February 8th.
“Among the potential risks to which, natural and public, the use of new technologies, the Public Security Police, the use of new technologies, the Security Police and virtual) highlights this year to other privacy threats (physical and virtual) that they can assume, a form of cyberbullying, cyberstalking, revenge porn [exposição pública, na Internet, de registos íntimos, sem o consentimento da pessoa visada] or sexting [divulgação de conteúdos sexuais através de telemóvel]”, refers to the same note, which classifies as an “unacceptable pattern” all abusive or harassing behavior.
“Victims must be protected; it will be the abusers who are the target of censorship and, eventually, should be penalized”, refers to a complaint “will allow us to build a safer virtual environment” for everyone.
“Denunciations of this type of crime have been on an upward trend”, note a PSP. The numbers to be presented: even in 2016 this test20265 complaint92 in 217, for 32 in 2108, for 369 and 3820 in 2020
The volume of awareness raising of complaints accredited to the PSP “reflects a greater awareness of individual rights and cannot promote the work of social policing networks, the result of the education carried out, or of the intermediary thematic campaigns of the social networks of proximity policing”.
The scope of risks, in the scope of force associated with equality and virtual risks In this sense, the Public Security Police recommends some preventive behaviors that must be adopted immediately, by victims seen from “more”: block and report.
“The PSP has people who are violent and/or who constitute contact crimes that can continue to establish”, The PSP has the existence of blocking tools in relation to the existence of blocking tools in applications and communication platforms that allow preventing people are violent and/or that constitute the crimes of continuing to establish”, it is underlined.
The PSP said that “the reporting of all highlighted crimes and investigation processes through the internet any other method is essential so that it can work quickly in the form of investigation”, allowing to obtain “more in the identification of its” authors”.
Since 2015, the PSP has published, in partnership with the Altice Foundation, the program “Comunicar em Segurança”, with the purpose of “alert and sensitize citizens and, in particular, young people to the need for safe and responsible use of the internet”. and cell phones”.
Some advice for parents and teachers can be found at www.comunicaremseguranca.sapo.pt.
In addition, the outstanding awareness that is available to peers in the SP community, namely the dangers of the internet, through contact with Escola Segura teams or via email [email protected].