Cyber Laws for Preventing Cyber Crimes Against Women in Canada

6.1 Introduction

The Canadian scenario differs from the US in issues of laws on cyber crime. Canada lacks a consolidated Information technology law. The Canadian cyber crime against women scenario differs from the UK as well. It was interesting to note that even though Canada has followed British Penal system (which was a model since the late 19^th century for almost all the English colonies as well as modern commonwealth countries like India, Australia etc) for covering offline as well as online crimes, the Canadian socio-legal approach towards generalizing various types of cyber crimes is quite similar to that of the US. Canada has no gender sensitive laws for cyber crimes like that of Women’s Reauthorization Act of the US to regulate cyber stalking against women. But at the same time, the governmental efforts to spread awareness through police handbooks about cyber victimization serve similar purposes to a great extent. Notably, Canada lacks statistical data on victimization of women in the cyber space. Hence, in this segment we have tried to analyze the trends of victimization of women in the cyber space only from a legal perspective.