Poverty breeds cyber crimes, says DSWD

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Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans

TAGBILARAN CITY – Poverty is still the culprit. The Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) is partly right as it cited “Poverty and lack of stringent laws,” one of the root causes, have generated what it called cyber pornography and cyber prostitution at the advent of technological advances. Reducing, if not eliminating, the occurrence of cyber crimes that continue to prey on innocent minors has pushed the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) to hold the four-day 2nd round of ASEAN Conference on Working Toward a Cyber-Pornography-Free Southeast Asia at Bohol Tropics Resort Club in this capital city on April 22-26, 2013. The conference has considerably identified some factors that contributed to the proliferation of the cyber pornography and cyber prostitution. And it appears it’s determined to combat these cyber crimes by understanding its dynamics and realities and through inter-country linkages in this part of the globe, says the DSWD. These factors include the public’s lack of essential information on the phenomenon; lack of essential information on how to address cyber-pornography and cyber-pornography; and non-cooperation by cyber-cafe owners and operators in disclosing any information of their users which makes tracking of victims and perpetrators almost impossible, says DSWD. It […]

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