Perlindungan Hukum Terhadap Reputasi Individu Dari Pencemaran Nama Baik Di Media Digital (Legal Protection of Individual Reputations from Defamation in Digital Media)

Abstract

An individual’s reputation is a valuable asset that reflects individual integrity, honesty, and dedication in various aspects of life. Protecting the individual’s reputation involves not only self-image but also protection of employment opportunities, credibility in business, and meaningfull interpersonal relationships. The study aims to examine how digital technology affects the dissemination of information that damages the reputation of individuals from defamation in digital media. This type of study uses literature studies, as well as the use of literature resources to obtain research data. The study uses a normative legal approach. This study has shown that digital use of the reputation of indvidu has a positive effect and a negative one. The spreading of damaging information on a person's reputation is false information such as false news or manipulated information (hoaks), misleading information, personal and sensitive information, other categories such as hacking (hacking) threatening a person's reputation. His legal protection is included in the 2016 law code on information and electronic transactions (the ite) and the republic of Indonesia's no. 1 in 2023 on the penal code of preventive law and repressive law protection.