Tuesday, 9 April 2019

2.1 Bullying online

Cyberbullying is often defined as bullying using electronic forms of contact such as email, chat rooms, blogs, websites, social networking sites, virtual learning environments, mobile phones etc. for repeatedly deliberate and hostile behaviour by an individual or group aiming at hurting another individual




Insafe and INHOPE work together through a network of Safer Internet Centres (SICs)across Europe, and support you to find further information on services in your country. For instance, Webwise, the Irish Internet Safety Awareness Centre, offers you this Primary Anti-Cyber Bullying Teachers’ Handbook 



Activity

Cyberbullying laws

Although it can be difficult to take legal action for some kinds of cyberbullying, many countries are introducing new legislation or amending existing laws to incorporate digital abuse and harassment online. What’s the status in your country? Try to find out the legal standards of your country related to this topic and share it here.


The legislation applied in Greece can be found on the following page:
http://www.safeline.gr/sites/default/files/Cyberbullying.pdf.
Also, there is the General Data Policy Regulation in EU law on data protection.

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