Infringement of privacy:
● Cracking personal accounts, stealing passwords, using/stealing identities, using another person’s computer to access
your accounts without consent
● Taking, accessing, using, manipulating, and/or disseminating photographs and/or videos without consent
● Sharing and/or disseminating private information and/or content, including sexualised images without knowledge or
consent
● Contacting and/or harassing your family, friends or classmates (etc.) to gain access to you
Surveillance and monitoring:
● Monitoring, tracking and/or surveillance of online and offline activities
● Tracking and/or stalking your movements without consent
Damaging reputation and/or credibility:
● Manipulating and/or creating fake photographs and/or videos
● Identity theft (e.g. pretending to be the person who created an image and posting or sharing it publicly)
● Disseminating private (and/or culturally sensitive/controversial) information for the purpose of damaging your reputation
Harassment (which may be accompanied by offline harassment):
● Cyberbullying and/or repeated harassment through unwanted messages, attention and/or contact
● Face-to-face bullying and cyberbullying can often happen alongside each other. But cyberbullying leaves a digital
footprint – a record that can prove useful and provide evidence to help stop the abuse
● Direct threats of violence, including threats of sexual and/or physical violence (e.g. threats of rape)
● Unsolicited sending and/or receiving of sexually explicit materials
● Incitement to physical violence
● Use of sexist and/or gendered comments or name-calling (e.g. use of terms like "bitch”/“slut")
● Abusing and/or shaming a woman for expressing views that are not normative, for disagreeing with people (often men)
and also for refusing sexual advances
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