Both provide training for advocates and practitioners, as well as resources for victims and survivors.
WESNET also providesreplacement phones.
Creating risk
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It banned the ads amidst mounting evidence that this kind of software is used toenact intimate partner violence.
Facebooks new smart glasses have alsosparked privacy concerns, likeSnapchats SpectaclesandGoogle Glassbefore them.
The glasses contain cameras and microphones that enable (potentially covert) recording.
Recognizing user realities and threat
Traditional ideas of cybersecurity are focused on stranger threats.
However, to reduce and combat digital domestic and family violence we need an intimate threat model.
Partners and families can compel others to provide access to devices.
The initiative revolves around three basic principles.
The first is that service providers are responsible for making user safety the number one priority.
This means platforms and other companies work to anticipate how their products may facilitate, increase or encourage harm.
In this way, the burden of safety will not fall solely on the user.
The second is that users should have the power and autonomy to make decisions in their own best interest.
The third principle is transparency and accountability about operations and published safety objectives is essential.
This also helps users to address safety concerns.
There is growing support for these principles among tech companies.
Last year IBM published its own guide to coercive control resistant design.
They can and should do more in this space.
