Online Shaming as a Form of Digital Persecution, Legal Issue on Protection of Dignity and Privacy Rights of Victims in Indonesian Legal Framework
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Online Shaming, Digital Persecution, Protection of Privacy RightsAbstract
Cyberspace is a place where social interaction occurs. A person's actions carried out in the real world can be disseminated through the internet. When the action is considered inappropriate, the community then sanctions the person by humiliating him. Everyone who can access the internet can obtain information about the person's actions and then leave various derogatory comments. The act of online shaming, which seems to be a way of imposing social sanctions, is now a way to persecute. Digital persecution is carried out by attacking the person concerned with comments containing insults, threats, and/or blasphemy. In addition, the personal data of the person concerned is disseminated through the internet. This action is known as doxing. The person who is the victim of doxing then receives various terrors and threats. Online shaming followed by doxing certainly causes losses for victims. Therefore, it is necessary to examine how Indonesian law can protect the dignity of citizens from online shaming and how the government must establish a personal data protection policy to protect the right to privacy. The law needs to give strict sanctions to initiators who carry out the online shaming act. Regarding doxing actions, Indonesia needs to change the paradigm of formulation of norms, not only limited to the prohibition on the collection, disclosure and use of personal data illegally, but also needs to formulate burdensome elements if the misuse of personal data causes a serious impact on victims.
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