Abstract

In mid-2021, more than 5.1 billion people used the internet, making it a tool of communications, entertainment and other applications accessed by roughly 65 percent of the world’s population (www.internetworldstats.com/stats.htm). For countless numbers of people, cyberspace has become indispensable for entertainment, communications, shopping, bill payments and other uses. Increasingly the boundaries between the real and virtual worlds are evaporating.