Kaspersky survey: Nearly half of online daters in Malaysia experience digital stalking


KUALA LUMPUR: A survey commissioned by Kaspersky involving 21,000 respondents worldwide and 1,000 in Malaysia revealed that almost half of Malaysian respondents had experienced some form of online stalking and digital abuse from the person they were newly dating.

"Almost 47% of respondents believed that checking the social media accounts of a person they had started dating as a form of due diligence is acceptable, while 42% admitted to doing so when they started dating someone.

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