Tech Savvy Teens: Choosing Who Gets To See Your Info
This 2 page handout for teens and students discusses important choices they can make about who gets to access their personal information.
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An Online Resource Library on Domestic & Sexual Violence
This 2 page handout for teens and students discusses important choices they can make about who gets to access their personal information.
This handout provides some simple but critical tips about phone, computer, email, instant messaging and other technology use to discuss if someone you know is in danger. Available in English, Spanish, Chinese, Korean, Vietnamese, Somali, and Russian.
Technology has led to tremendous advancements in our society but has also brought more danger to victims of stalking and given more tools for stalkers to use. New technology has made it more difficult for prosecutors and judges to hold stalkers accountable for their crimes, and without an understanding of how technology is misused by stalkers to track and monitor their victims, many victims don't get the justice they deserve. This article addresses the tremendous impact of technology on stalking, especially within the context of intimate partner stalking.
This handout covers 3 basic steps organizations can take if they work with survivors of sexual assault, domestic violence and stalking: (1) have safety alerts and an escape button on every page of your website; (2) post some general safety tips that alert survivors to risks without educating stalkers about new ways to abuse; and, (3) use web forms that promote informed consent.
Do you want to know what spyware is, how it works, how it can end up secretly monitoring your computer? This handout answers those questions, discusses risks, and provides safety tips for survivors of abuse, for organizations that assist victims, and for parents.
This guide was designed to teach parents how to help their teens strengthen their privacy and safety on Facebook. It discusses managing reputation, risks, privacy, and reporting problems.
Each of the five 1-page guides provides information to help parents communicate appropriate rules and expectations regarding internet use and safety according to their childs age.
This fact sheet describes cyberbullying, its intersections with sexual harassment, and the application of Title IX which prohibits discrimination on the basis of sex in schools. It provides guidance to schools, students, and families in addressing these crimes.
This resource addresses the key areas of risk associated with the use of digital technologies by young people. The major message presented is that it is necessary to delete the “oh my” reaction and address these concerns in a manner that is positive and restorative.
This paper describes how the Internet has become a resource for sex traffickers to sell women and children for sexual exploitation while concealing their own identities and recommends the implementation of international human rights law explicitly criminalizing Internet-facilitated sex trafficking.