The House committee on women and gender equality on Wednesday approved a measure amending the Anti-Violence Against Women and Children law by including offenses committed using social media platforms or electronic violence.
The still unnumbered substitute bill defines electronic violence or ICE-related violence as any act or omission involving the use or exploitation of data or any form of information and communications technology which causes or is likely to cause mental, emotional, or psychological distress or suffering to the woman and/or her children.
any similar recording, reproduction, distribution, use, sharing or uploading of any audio presentation and data, including sound clips of the same nature stalking, including the hacking of personal accounts on social networking sites and the use of location data from electronic devices; Moreover, the bill amends the VAWC law’s psychological violence provision by stating that it would include acts or omissions that may be committed through physical, verbal, emotional, electronic or information communication technology -related means or other means causing or likely to cause mental or emotional suffering of a woman and/or her children such as intimidation, harassment, stalking, damage to property, public ridicule or humiliation, verbal abuse and marital infidelity.
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