THE APPLICATION OF THE MARIA DA PENHA LAW TO VIRTUAL RELATIONSHIPS

This paper proposes a legal analysis of the application of Law 11.340, of August 7, 2006, known as 
the Maria da Penha Law, to virtual relationships. Violence is a social phenomenon that compromises 
the fundamental rights and guarantees of individuals, and its characterization occurs through many 
violations, including in the social media with technological advances. Thus, the research presents the 
debate on the issue of violence against women with a focus on virtual relationships. It specifies the 
existing omissions in the normatization, in addition to failures in the application and adequacy of the 
laws already in force, the impacts and the resulting consequences, as well as the urgent need for 
legislative innovations to fill such a gap and the public policies to face this serious violation of the right 
to privacy and intimacy. The method used to achieve the desired objectives is deductive, through legal 
works, internet sites, magazine articles, laws and jurisprudence