Technology Abuse
When someone uses technology (phones, social media or computers) to abuse, blackmail, manipulate or control you.
Examples of technology facilitated abuse:
- Sending abusive texts, emails or messages via social media
- Making repeated threatening phone calls
- Tracking your location or using spyware
- Checking your text messages, social media activity or internet activity
- Forbidding you from having a phone or breaking your phone
- Sharing or threatening to share intimate photos without consent (sometimes called revenge porn)
- Forcing you to send nude images or taking nude images of you without your knowledge
Dealing with image-based abuse
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Get Help
Below is a list of things that can help:
Being constantly harassed or monitored can, like any other form of abuse, leave you feeling powerless and justifiably fearful for your safety.
No one deserves to be abused, threatened or stalked by someone using technology.
Click here for more information by eSafety Commission on things that can help.
To find help locally, click the button below.
National Helplines: