For the third year in a row, the National Network to End Domestic Violence (NNEDV) has successfully collaborated with Ring and TechSoup to enhance safety planning for domestic violence survivors and their families by donating Ring Doorbells and Stick-Up Cams to survivors throughout the United States and US Territories. To date, Ring has donated over 35,000 devices to survivors through the domestic violence organizations that serve them.

In August, Meta’s Instagram introduced several new features including Instagram Map.  Instagram Map allows users to share their live location with friends and explore posts tagged to nearby places. While the new Map feature may be helpful for some, advocates and survivors of domestic violence, stalking, and other forms of abuse should be aware of the significant safety and privacy concerns this feature raises.

In the age of advanced image-editing tools and artificial intelligence, image nudification has become a serious and impactful problem. As tools to nudify images have become more easily available, they have become more commonly used in patterns of online sexual abuse against groups and individuals.