Cyber violence- impact of the buturgă case versus romania on national law

Abstract

The European Court of Human Rights pointed out that cyber violence was currently recognised as an aspect of violence against women and girls, and that it could take on a variety of forms, including cyber breaches of privacy, intrusion into the victim’s computer and the capture, sharing and manipulation of data and images, including private data. In Romania, the cyber violence term was defined following the adoption of Law no 106/2020 amending the Law no.217/2003 on preventing and combating domestic violence, and represent the first step in its regulation.

Keywords

• cyberviolence
• domestic violence
• national law
• case law
• protection order