DISSEMINATION AND COLLECTION OF INFORMATION ABOUT A PERSON’S PRIVATE LIFE AS A FORM OF CYBERBULLYING

Abstract

Cyberbullying is a type of bullying; the use of this term in the article is justified by the absence of such a legislatively defined term covering a wide range of public relations regulated by both civil law and criminal law. The article highlights one form of offense related to cyberbullying — interference with a person’s private life through the collection or dissemination of information by a person about private life on the Internet and its protection by criminal law instruments. The development of a system for counteracting this type of crime is relevant for many IT developed countries. In this regard, the norms of the laws of Canada regulating cyberbullying are given as an example. The article raises the question of whether it is possible to consider illegal collection and dissemination of information about a person’s private life, carried out in the information and communication environment as illegal acts, in the absence of a direct mention of the ICT environment, the Internet space in Part 1 of Art. 137 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation as a space for disseminating information about a person’s private life, as well as in the absence of methods for collecting information defined in part 1 of Article 137 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation?