New & Updated Tech Safety Resources

Safety Net is excited to announce our new and updated resources (below). We hope these materials will help survivors and victim service providers who are trying to navigate technology, privacy, and safety. All of the materials are available in both English and Spanish.

Reproductive Coercion and Technology
This resource was developed in response to questions from the field about the privacy and safety risks related to technology for people experiencing reproductive coercion in the context of abuse. The resource defines the term reproductive coercion, describes the intersection with technology, and then suggests tips and further resources related to locational information, communications technology, and health information.

 Data Brokers: What they are and what you can do about them
This resource explains the risks to survivor privacy posed by data brokers and different potential strategies to address this issue in privacy planning. It is an overhaul of the previous resource on data brokers and contains new content. The intended audience is survivors and victim service providers.

 Removing Sensitive Content from the Internet
This resource explains steps that survivors or victim service providers can take to have survivors’ personally identifying and/or intimate content from both host websites and search engine results in the course of privacy planning.

 Safety and Privacy Tips for Older Technology
While less frequently seen in the field, some older technologies are still used against survivors. This new resource aims to preserve this useful information, while also removing it from more frequently used resources to improve length and readability of those other resources.