The House committee on ladies and gender equality on Wednesday accredited a measure amending the Anti-Violence Against Women and Children legislation by together with offenses dedicated utilizing social media platforms or digital violence.
The nonetheless unnumbered substitute invoice defines digital violence or ICE-related violence as any act or omission involving the use or exploitation of knowledge or any type of info and communications expertise which causes or is prone to trigger psychological, emotional, or psychological misery or struggling to the lady and/or her youngsters.
The invoice stated digital VAWC would particularly consists of the next cases:
- unauthorized recording, copy, distribution, use, sharing, or importing of any {photograph}, video, or different types of digital and/or creative presentation displaying or depicting in any type of her youngsters’s genitalia, pubic space, buttocks, breasts, excretory physique half or operate, nudity, scenes with sexual context or portrayal of sexual conduct equivalent to sexual activity, masturbation, kissing, caressing, hugging, and petting;
- unauthorized recording, copy, distribution, use, sharing or importing of any {photograph}, video, or different types of digital and/or creative presentation exhibiting any sexually-related verbal or nonverbal expression or gesture of the lady and/or her youngsters which can be construed as lewd, indecent, or obscene;
- unauthorized recording, copy, distribution, use, sharing or importing of any {photograph}, video, or some other type of digital and/or creative presentation depicting any purported violent or errant conduct of the lady and her youngsters, or using intoxicating or prohibited substances or medication;
- any comparable recording, copy, distribution, use, sharing or importing of any audio presentation and knowledge, together with sound clips of the identical nature
- unauthorized use of {a photograph}, video, voice recording, identify or any mark, reference or character identifiable with a lady and/or her youngsters and suggestive of a wrongdoing, conduct or attribute that tends to besmirch the popularity of the lady and/or her youngsters;
- harassing, intimidating, coercing, threatening, or vilifying the girl and/or her youngsters by way of textual content messaging or different cyber, digital, or multimedia expertise;
- stalking, together with the hacking of non-public accounts on social networking websites and using location knowledge from digital gadgets;
- fabrication of faux info or news by way of textual content messaging or different cyber, digital or multimedia expertise; and
- creation of faux social media accounts utilizing an alias or a completely different particular person’s private info with ailing intent and malice, to sow intrigue or inflict hurt.
Moreover, the invoice amends the VAWC legislation’s psychological violence provision by stating that it might embrace acts or omissions that could be dedicated by way of bodily, verbal, emotional, digital or info communication expertise (ICT)-related means or different means inflicting or prone to trigger psychological or emotional struggling of a lady and/or her youngsters equivalent to intimidation, harassment, stalking, harm to property, public ridicule or humiliation, verbal abuse and marital infidelity.
The psychological violence below the proposed invoice additionally consists of the act of inflicting or coercing a lady and/or her youngsters to witness the bodily, sexual or psychological abuse of a member of the household to which the lady and her youngsters belong, or to witness pornography in any type or to witness abusive harm to pets or to illegal or undesirable deprivation of the precise to custody and/or visitation of frequent youngsters.
“Due to the rapid spread of mobile information, the increasing use of social media, and the increased reach of the internet, electronic violence against women has emerged as a major global issue with potentially troubling economic and societal consequences. n this growing technology-dependent society, it is our beholden duty to also update our laws to address the fast-changing realities and means of committing crimes,” House Assistant Minority Leader Arlene Brosas, one of many authors of the measure, stated in her explanatory notice.
“In this light, we believe that the proposed amendments to RA 9262 are necessary,” she added.
Marikina City Representative Marjorie Teodoro, additionally one of many authors of the measure, stated the brand new measure will assist the 2012 Cybercrime legislation.
“At this day and age, where the public has much latitude on the use of the internet, it is crucial to put safeguards and restrictions that will keep the exercise of our rights in check. Even online, it is disheartening that women and children remain vulnerable to violence and abuse,” she stated.
“This bill specifically identifying and categorizing online violence against women and children in existing laws will facilitate prosecution of offenders and serve as a deterrent against the commission of on1ine violence against women and children,” she added.—AOL, GMA Integrated News
Source: www.gmanetwork.com
