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CYBERCRIME
At
the height of the XXI century it is almost unthinkable that we can
live without the help of technology, since we have incorporated it
into most of our activities, from the simplest and everyday things,
as it is used to communicate with other people (through e-mails,
social networks, mobile, etc) to the most complex management of our
political and /or economic system.
However,
the technology has somehow become a double-edged sword, since unlike
in the past when you could identify with some ease both the crime and
the criminal, now both the crime and who executes it are very well
hidden behind a screen.
Despite
the enormous economic investment to protect our data and information
of all kinds, we know that every day a thousand ways are discovered
to introduce new viruses or spam, to pirate privileged information,
to commit extortion and/or cyberblackmail; at the same time we can
notice that there is some specialization in phishing, in giving or
creating fake news.
In
this way, the presence of cyber-bullying is increasingly visible. In
itself, this is alarming behavior, so it should affect us even more
more when it can be noticed that it is encouraged from when a child
and / or teenager becomes a frequent user of social networks.
In
this sense, we have just begun to barely see the tip of the iceberg
of this problem; we begin to be aware of the scope of the cybercrime.
Since, we are not yet fully aware of what happens when we publish our
life through social networks.
The
use and learning of any type of technology has become widespread, but
not so much time and effort is invested, for example, in the
prevention of the use of social networks. Especially in very early
ages, privacy and uniqueness seem to be decadent concepts in a
cybernetical world that encourages users, as an ideal, to be an
influencer, expose their life, and have the most followers and likes
that they can. What is not always said is that not only could you
receive compliments from the followers but also, in the worst case,
you could receive offensive, destructive comments from the haters
obviously protected by anonymity.
What
can we do to tackle this problem? From my point of view, resources
must be invested in education and information. It will be more
difficult to be the subject to deception and / or extortion if we are
informed, if we know the consequences and extent of overexposure of
our life in social networks. Education understood as knowledge and
empowerment will give us the necessary tools to somehow face and
avoid being a victim in cases of cybercrime.
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