El acoso cibernético y el derecho a la intimidad personal

Abstract

ABSTRACT

The present project was carried out to investigate cyber bullying and the right to personal privacy, because currently this problem affects society in Ecuador, as the cases of cyber bullying are increasing, which is being done through electronic means, making use of the internet, and social networks among others, where the main objective is to damage the image of a person before society, thus violating the right to privacy of people, Although cyberbullying is not classified as a crime in the Comprehensive Organic Criminal Code, there are other crimes such as intimidation or psychological violence that start from this form of harassment and are studied throughout this project.

The importance of this research is that cyberbullying can be regulated because it violates the right to personal privacy, whose rights are inherent in human beings, which creates a legal vacuum.

In addition, a legal study of both variables is carried out in the research background, the scientific method is used through a survey addressed to the Judges of the Criminal and Fiscal Unit of the Ambato Canton, so that they give their legal criteria about the problem raised after the respective analysis of the result and verification of the Hypothesis of it, it has been possible to reach the respective conclusions and recommendations where a solution to the problem is given as a proposal, which is stated for posterity.