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Tracked: How Tech Can Be A Tool Of Abuse
33 minutes Posted Oct 22, 2021 at 5:08 pm.
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Anita learns about how the smart devices that keep many of us connected have also contributed to the rise of a new type of intimate partner violence. Survivors share stories of tech-enabled domestic abuse and a cybersecurity expert discusses what folks can do about it.


Meet the guests:

- Ashley, a survivor of digital domestic abuse who runs a TikTok account under the name MerelyAshley

- Kathryn Kosmides, a multi-time gender-based violence survivor and founder and CEO of Garbo.io, a background check nonprofit set to launch later this year

- Audace Garnett, technology safety specialist with Safety Net at the National Network to End Domestic Violence

- Eva Galperin, director of cybersecurity at the Electronic Frontier Foundation and a founding partner of the Coalition Against Stalkerware

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