Your Behaviours Online Could Result in Being Charged with Criminal Harassment

In today’s society, with the use of social media, many people do not realize their online behaviours could actually find themselves being charged with the criminal offence called criminal harassment. This type of offence was added to the Criminal Code of Canada in 1993.

         

                                       

Initially, it was developed to address the growing awareness of stalking behaviours and stalkers. Prior to the rise of the Internet and social media, stalking involved one or more of these types of behaviours.

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