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NNEDV's Safety Net: National Safe & Strategic Technology Project creates resources to address how technology impacts victims of domestic violence, sexual assault and stalking, including:
Survivors & Technology. An interactive safety planning tool. NEW
Read more about this new tool, an interactive CD released in October 2007 to help victims outsmart abusers and stalkers in today's hi-tech world! |
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Technology Safety Planning with Survivors
This handout provides 12 tips about technology use to discuss if someone you know is in danger. It is available in the following languages:
A High-Tech Twist on Abuse
This article describes how abusers are misusing technology against victims and how victims can use technology to enhance safety. It was published in Volume 1, Issue 2 (December 2005) of the online journal, Family Violence Prevention and Health Practice.
A High-Tech Twist on Abuse: Technology, Intimate Partner Stalking and Advocacy
This 22 page paper highlights research literature and survivors' reports on the use of technology in intimate partner stalking. It discusses use and abuse of: telephone technologies including TTY and Caller ID; location and surveillance technologies including GPS devices and cameras; and, computer and Internet technologies including spyware and online databases. It includes tips for social change and advocacy, safety strategies for survivors, and a resource list for victim advocates. View as: Adobe PDF and Plain Text
Assessing Organizational Readiness to Provide Online Advocacy & Services
This article introduces safety, confidentiality and capacity issues that organizations should address when considering provision of online technical assistance or counseling. It is coauthored by Safety Net and the National Sexual Assault Resource Sharing Project, IowaCASA, and published in The Resource Newsletter (Spring/Summer 2005) of the National Sexual Violence Resource Center. View as: Plain Text.
Data Security Checklist to Increase Victim Safety
This checklist highlights steps that local domestic violence and rape crisis programs and other community service providers can take to promote victim safety and data security. It includes steps to consider: before undertaking data collection; when designing a data system; and, during ongoing data system maintenance, audits and trainings.
Internet Safety ..." tips if you are in danger"
This provides a few quick safety tips to victims about online monitoring and using safer computers, phone interception, 911 calls and more.
Tech Savvy Teens / Adolescentes Tecnisabios (Spanish)
This 2 page handout for teens and students discusses important choices they can make about who gets to access their personal information. It covers blogs and social networking sites, how information gets online and issues about removing it, web archives, phones and texting, computers and spyware, and ways to protect your privacy. In English and Spanish.
Who's Spying on Your Computer? Spyware, Surveillance, and Safety for Survivors / Qui vous espionne lorsque vous utilisez votre ordinateur? (french)
Do you want to know what is spyware, how it works, how it can end up on your computer? This handout answers those questions and provides safety tips for survivors of abuse, for organizations that assist victims, and for parents.
Note: For safety reasons, many other Safety Net resources are not posted on the internet. Please contact the Safety Net team for additional resources and information.
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