Tech Summit 2024

Tech Summit 2024

Last week, we welcomed almost 300 people to Safety Net’s Tech Summit 2024 in Washington, DC. Registrants overcame weather-related travel difficulties to attend, and we are grateful for everyone’s commitment to being in this space and doing this work. For three days (four for state and territorial coalition staff who attended Coalition Day), we laughed, strategized, and built new ways to think and talk about how privacy and tech safety impact the lives of survivors of abuse and harassment.

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NNEDV Joins New National Partnership to Address Image-Based Abuse

The National Network to End Domestic Violence (NNEDV) is excited to be a partner in a new working group that will focus on addressing image-based abuse. The partnership, led by NNEDV’s Safety Net Project, the Cyber Civil Rights Initiative (CCRI), and the Center for Democracy and Technology (CDT), will bring together victim service advocates, privacy experts, and technology companies to curb the nonconsensual distribution of intimate images and the rapid growth of AI-generated content (also known as synthetic images, digital sexual forgeries, or deepfakes).

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New Report Highlights Trend in Sharing our Digital Lives

New Report Highlights Trend in Sharing our Digital Lives

Technology has allowed relationships to extend far beyond the physical realm, which can create a complex web of shared digital spaces. For some, sharing some digital access with intimate partners, such as passcodes, location data, and social media accounts, can feel helpful and can foster a sense of trust. Many couples don’t share constantly, but they may decide to share when one person is traveling or going for a run, for example. For survivors of abuse, however, their partner having access to their digital accounts can create many harmful risks. Unfortunately, many abusive individuals misuse this access as a means to stalk, harass, threaten, and monitor their partners in order to maintain power and control.

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