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Safety Net Project

Safety Net Project logoTechnology helps 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 various technologies in the hands of abusers and perpetrators.  NNEDV's Safety Net: Safe & Strategic Technology Project addresses how technology impacts the safety, privacy, accessibility, and civil rights of victims by:

  • Educating 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;
  • Training law enforcement, social services, coordinated community response teams and others how to hold perpetrators accountable for misusing technology to impersonate, harass, stalk, surveil, and threaten.
  • Advocating for strong local, state, national and international policies and practices that ensure the safety, privacy and civil rights of all victims and survivors.

NNEDV's Safety Net Project addresses how technology can be harnessed successfully to do effective outreach, intervention, and violence prevention work.

Since 2002, the Safety Net Project has trained more than 50,000 advocates, police, prosecutors and others due to the generous support from...Read more


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Global audience attends Technology Institute on Violence Against Women in the Digital Age

February 27, 2012

As part of the 2nd World Conference of Women's Shelters, NNEDV's Safety Net Project hosted a full day Institute on Technology: Violence Against Women in the Digital Age. Presenters illustrated ways that women's shelters and victims can use technology more safely and effectively. Participants...

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NNEDV Provides Testimony on Capitol Hill on Safety and Technology

May 31, 2011

Sen. Al Franken (D) of Minnesota, met with representatives from a variety of Minnesota agencies that are concerned for the safety and privacy of victims with the use of modern technology. On Tuesday, May 10, Franken, chairman of the Judiciary Subcommittee on Privacy, Technology and the Law, held a hearing on Protecting Mobile Privacy: Your Smartphones, Tablets, Cell Phones and Your Privacy. Read more

 

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NNEDV's Safety Net Technology Project Joins Facebook's Global Safety Advisory Board

December 07, 2010

NNEDV announced that it is joining Facebook’s Safety Advisory Board, becoming one of five organizations from North America and Europe to be a part of the group. NNEDV’s Safety Net Technology Project experts have worked with Facebook consistently to represent the needs of victims of domestic violence, cyber-stalking and teen dating violence.

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Leading Companies Unite for Survivors

August 15, 2010

Three major companies – Google, Verizon through the Verizon Foundation, and Liz Claiborne Inc. – join together in a unique way to better serve victims of domestic violence.

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Survivors and Technology CD 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.

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