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Domestic Violence Technology Safety Resources
Abusers often misuse technology to harm domestic violence survivors through stalking, GPS tracking, spyware, online harassment, or sharing private images or information. During their journey to safety, survivors may also face systems that require sensitive personal information. These resources are intended to support domestic violence survivors and their advocates to create and maintain safety online and with digital devices.
Domestic Violence & Technology Organizations
EndTAB
EndTAB ("Technology-assisted abuse") provides training and resources to service provides on how to keep survivors of abuse and trauma safe online and with technological devices.
Visit ResourceSafety Net Project
The Safety Net Project explores technology safety in the context of intimate partner violence, sexual assault, and violence against women. Their site includes resources and tools for survivors and service provides.
Visit ResourceRefuge
Refuge directly supports survivors in the UK dealing with complicated technology and economic abuse concerns. Their site includes resources, tools, and training for survivors and service providers.
Visit ResourceSurvivor Tech Safety Guides
Safety Net: Technology Safety & Privacy: A Toolkit for Survivors
This detailed toolkit contains best practices, safety tips, information, and privacy strategies for domestic violence survivors. This wide-ranging toolkit covers digital stalking, technology and sexual assault, teens and tech, safety with smart devices and more.
Visit ResourceLooped Solutions: A Practical Guide to Mobile Safety
This guide is designed to break down the everyday risks victims and advocates encounter and provide essential best practices for safer, more effective communication. The demand for victim services far outweighs availability of resources, but by leveraging safe connection, no survivor should be left without support.
Visit ResourceChayn: DIY Online Safety Guide
This guide to do-it-yourself online safety includes risk assessment and best practices. It is available in nine languages: English, French, Urdu, Arabic, Spanish, Russian, Italian, Farsi, and Pashto.
Visit ResourceApple: Safety Check Tipsheet
Created with the National Hotline, these safety tips come from Apple about how to stay safe on their devices.
Visit ResourceWomens' Aid: Cover Your Tracks Online
This guide contains technical advice about what can be protected on you and your children's digital devices and how to implement those protections.
Visit ResourceWomensLaw.org: Safety Planning While Using Social Media
These safety planning measures help keep you safe specifically on social media
Visit ResourceWomensLaw.org: Safety Planning While Using the Internet
These safety planning measures help you safe when using the internet and while having a digital presence.
Visit ResourceThe Hubertine Auclert Center: Digital Protection Guide
This French-language guide contains a wide variety of resources and practical steps to enhance digital safety and specific digital safety planning steps for survivors of domestic violence.
Visit Resource (French)Tech Safety Tools and Programs
Consumer Reports: Interactive Security Planner for Online Safety
This interactive security planner works with you to create a customized safety plan based on device-type and security concerns. The Interactive Security Planner is also offered in Spanish.
Visit ResourceVisit Resource (Spanish)
Refuge: Digital Breakup
Created with web security company Avast, Refuge's Digital Breakup Tool helps you secure your digital devices and platforms like social media against tech abuse by a partner or ex-partner.
Visit ResourceAdvocate Tech Safety Resources
Safety Net: Assessing for Technology Abuse and Privacy Concerns
This assessment is designed for advocates working with survivors to understand the survivor's risk of, and educate them about, stalking, tracking, and monitoring through technology.
Visit ResourceeSafety: Online Safety Checklist
This safety checklist is best used with an advocate or support worker to work through each area of digital protections. It's also recommended to review and update the checklist regularly, especially if your situation changes.
Visit ResourceThe Norton Donation Program for Survivors of Domestic Violence
This program provides free cybersecurity solutions for survivors via distribution through a domestic violence shelter or agency.
Visit ResourceThe following guidelines are used by DomesticShelters.org to determine which books we will make available in our Recommended Books section. If you are an author and would like us to consider your book for our site, please review the guidelines carefully before submitting. To submit a book, email us at info@domesticshelters.org and include a PDF copy of the book.
- Your book must be published by a traditional publisher, not self-published.
- The book must be professionally written, researched, fact-checked, edited and copyedited.
- The book must meet book publishing industry standards for formatting, structure and presentation.
- The writing must exhibit expert understanding of domestic violence or related topics.
- The author is ideally widely recognized for their expertise on the topic presented.
- The book must have an ISBN 10.
- The book must be available through amazon.com.
- You must submit a PDF version of the book so that it can be easily reviewed.
While we receive many book submissions and reserve the right to determine which books will become available on DomesticShelters.org, we’re nonetheless greatly appreciative of all the good work created by the many people working to help survivors and end domestic violence.
