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Safety Net Project
Technology helps victims and their children successfully flee violent batterers, stalkers and rapists. But what millions don't realize is the dangerous and potentially lethal sides of various technologies in the hands of abusers and perpetrators. NNEDV's Safety Net: Safe & Strategic Technology Project addresses how technology impacts the safety, privacy, accessibility, and civil rights of victims by:
- Educating victims, their advocates and the general public on ways to use technology strategically to help find safety and escape domestic violence, dating violence, sexual violence, stalking and abuse;
- Training law enforcement, social services, coordinated community response teams and others how to hold perpetrators accountable for misusing technology to impersonate, harass, stalk, surveil, and threaten.
- Advocating for strong local, state, national and international policies and practices that ensure the safety, privacy and civil rights of all victims and survivors.
NNEDV's Safety Net Project addresses how technology can be harnessed successfully to do effective outreach, intervention, and violence prevention work.
Since 2002, the Safety Net Project has trained more than 50,000 advocates, police, prosecutors and others due to the generous support from...Read more
Safety Net Project News:
2/12/2012 Webinar: Navigating Financial & Credit Issues When Relocating
January 25, 2012
NNEDV is hosting a 2/1/2012 Webinar on "Navigating Financial & Credit Issues When Relocating" featuring Valenda Applegarth of Greater Boston Legal Services and Erika Sussman of the Center for Survivor Agency and Justice. This webinar will address common issues that survivors face when relocating and working to regain economic independence and protect future privacy.
NNEDV Provides Testimony on Capitol Hill on Safety and Technology
May 31, 2011
Sen. Al Franken (D) of Minnesota, met with representatives from a variety of Minnesota agencies that are concerned for the safety and privacy of victims with the use of modern technology. On Tuesday, May 10, Franken, chairman of the Judiciary Subcommittee on Privacy, Technology and the Law, held a hearing on Protecting Mobile Privacy: Your Smartphones, Tablets, Cell Phones and Your Privacy. Read more
NNEDV's Safety Net Technology Project Joins Facebook's Global Safety Advisory Board
December 07, 2010
NNEDV announced that it is joining Facebook’s Safety Advisory Board, becoming one of five organizations from North America and Europe to be a part of the group. NNEDV’s Safety Net Technology Project experts have worked with Facebook consistently to represent the needs of victims of domestic violence, cyber-stalking and teen dating violence.
