Doha, Qatar: The Legal and Judicial Studies Centre at the Ministry of Justice (MoJ) organised educational legal workshops on cybercrime, its nature, and risks for a number of school and academy members, Barazan girls forum, and the Qatar Scouts and Guides Association, within the educational and awareness programmes that the centre organizes in cooperation with competent authorities.
Presented by head of legal awareness department at the Centre of Legal and Judicial Studies Zainab Al Yafei, the workshops addressed bullying crimes, electronic hacking, and blackmail. It also reviewed new patterns of cybercrime that emerged as a result of the negative use of the Internet and social networking sites.
The workshops underscored that the reasons behind the spread of these crimes due to the increase and diversity of social media programmes, the vulnerable family control of parents over children, the lack of awareness of the dangers and cautions of committing electronic crimes, the belief of some people that it is difficult to detect them if they have committed electronic crime, and the large penetration of modern means of communication in the lives of families, especially mobile phones and modern electronic devices and the multiplicity of their services and uses that have eliminated the privacy barriers.
