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Cyber crimes cause divorce rate to rise  

Published : Thursday, 1 August, 2024 at 12:00 AM  Count : 435
Md Rayhan Ali
In the overall development of the age, there is a touch of modernity in everything. Modernization has become easier due to radical improvements in technology. The greatest blessing of this modernization is the development of information and communication technology services. By connecting the internet with technology to test this development in reality, we can easily exchange news quickly through social media or mass media. The most popular social media are Facebook, Messenger, WhatsApp, Emu, Viber, Instagram, YouTube, Google etc. Thanks to these media, Nimish's news is being received from home and abroad.

Among these are the media that have a timeline system that fills the timeline, newsfeed with essential and unnecessary news, images and events. This opportunity is provided by the Internet. 70 percent of internet users worldwide are connected through social media. Among young people, the rate is even higher, about 90 percent. 80 percent of internet users in Bangladesh have a Facebook account. Although this figure is from 2018, the number may have increased.

The most used social media are computers, smartphones and iPhones etc. Through this technology, any person can easily exchange information, data, opinions, pictures, videos, video interviews etc.  Especially the youth is getting addicted to the use of information technology. And this addiction is getting involved in cyber crime. Many are misusing technology knowingly for their own interests or for terrorist activities. Cyber crime or computer crime is a crime that is related to computers and computer networks. So internet based crime is cyber crime. The rush of this crime has become difficult.

Recently, cyber crimes are increasing due to misuse of Facebook, Messenger, Imu, WhatsApp apps. Most young people, students and new couples are getting involved in this crime. Incidentally, a boy first meets a girl through social media or is previously known. Based on this relationship, various types of virtual transactions take place between the two. It can be a text, audio-video message, photo or an emotional video clip. Between these exchanges, the relationship between the two continues to be quite sweet. Some relationships lead to marriage and most relationships never see the light of marriage! That's when the tension in the relationship began. If there is consensual or contrived sexual intercourse during the relationship, then the whole relationship usually does not lead to marriage. It happens again 

The boy secretly or with the girl's consent records the video on the mobile camera during the sexual intercourse time as part of passion or deception. Later, when the boy offers the girl again for sexual desire, if the girl refuses for some reason, it is a problem. The boy then threatened the girl and said, "Look, you have my sex videos saved, if you don't listen to me, then I will advertise on Facebook or send these videos to your relatives' phones, etc." 

It also happens that the girl is married somewhere else. Then the boy sends the saved video to the girl's new husband or threatens to break the family. Among these, many of them edit the girl's picture and open a fake Facebook ID, make nude pictures/videos and publish them on Facebook or send them to the girl's relatives. These are cyber crimes. The number of such crimes is highest at present. Cyber crimes are increasing in various forms. The government has enacted laws to curb this crime. Cybercrime was dealt with till 2017 by the Information and Communication Technology Act, 2006. Currently this offense is dealt with by the Digital Security Act, 2018. Due to various public reactions after the enactment of this Act, it was recently decided in the Cabinet meeting that the Act was repealed and replaced with the Cyber Security Act, 2023. 

According to the information received by DMP's Cyber Security and Crime Division, in 2015, there were 638 cases of cyber crime across the country, which was followed by 923 cases in the following year, 2016. Again in 2017 there were 1 thousand 58 cases and 1 thousand 136 cases in 2018 and 1 thousand 456 cases in 2019. Apart from this, 232 cases were filed in 2015, 206 cases in 2016, 280 cases in 2017, 370 cases in 2018 and 540 cases in 2019. 

The government has taken various steps related to cyber security. Meanwhile, various government and private departments, organizations and NGOs are working to raise awareness about cyber crime in the country, but it is not enough. It is not at all appropriate to think of suppressing this crime only through the formation of cyber tribunals, but public awareness should be greatly increased through projectors in educational institutions and public places about the evils of this crime. 

The writer is an Advocate,Judge Court, Khulna



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