NNEDV Projects Safety Net Project
Content
Safety Net Project
The revolutionary tool of the Internet has helped victims and their children successfully flee violent batterers, stalkers and rapists. But what millions don't realize is the dangerous and potentially lethal sides of this same technology in the hands of abusers and perpetrators.
NNEDV's Safety Net: Safe & Strategic Technology Project addresses how technology impacts the safety, privacy and accessibility rights of victims. The Safety Net Project educates victims, their advocates and the general public on ways to use technology strategically to help find safety and escape domestic violence, dating violence, sexual violence, stalking and abuse. Safety Net trains law enforcement, social services, coordinated community response teams and others how to hold perpetrators accountable for misusing technology to impersonate, harass, stalk, surveille, and threaten. Since 2002, the Safety Net Project has trained more than 41,911 advocates, police, prosecutors and others.
Changes in local, state, national and international policies reflect the success of the Safety Net Project's efforts, which include helping courts to keep survivors' addresses and photos off the Internet, increasing the security of databases that house vital and confidential information about victims, and, holding abusers accountable who misuse technology to stalk. Read more about the Safety Net Project & it's funders...
News From NNEDV's Safety Net Project:
Leading Companies Unite to Improve Services for Domestic Violence Survivors
August 15, 2010
Three major companies – Google, Verizon through the Verizon Foundation, and Liz Claiborne Inc. – are coming together in a unique way to better serve victims of domestic violence. In partnership with the National Network to End Domestic Violence (NNEDV) and Jane Doe Inc., they were in Cambridge, Mass. as part of a nationwide initiative to promote safe technological practices.
Online Privacy Planning Webinar August 25
August 12, 2010
This Online Privacy Planning webinar for OVW grantees will address how personal information gets published and linked online and offers concrete tips for helping survivors increase and maintain their privacy in our very public world.
Survivors and Technology CD - Now Available in Spanish
January 27, 2009
Bilingual tool available to outsmart abusers and stalkers in today's hi-tech world! The National Network to End Domestic Violence Fund (NNEDV) Project has released an innovative, interactive Survivors & Technology CD to help victims of domestic violence and stalking protect themselves and their children from their abusers.
