Ring Collaborates with NNEDV to Support Survivors Nationwide
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Ring has announced a donation of up to 10,000 home security devices to support survivor safety across the United States.
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Virtual Tech Summit 2025
Save the dates for Safety Net’s next Technology Summit, held online
from Tuesday, July 15, to Thursday, July 17, 2025.
Registration information will be available soon.
Safety Net focuses on the intersection of technology and abuse, and we work to address how that abuse impacts the safety and privacy of survivors. Our team provides expert training and technical assistance, creates and disseminates resources, and influences conversations on technology abuse and safety globally. Safety Net is a project of the National Network to End Domestic Violence.
Safety Net Blog
Global Encryption Day 2022
/In our contemporary world, it has been increasingly important for survivors to have access to secure online communication channels to make plans, store and send evidence, and seek help – all of which necessitates encryption. Encryption can be used to protect data stored on survivors’, service providers’, and consumer companies’ devices and accounts. Encryption is critical to survivors’ privacy and safety.
Read MoreNew & Updated Tech Safety Resources
/Safety Net is excited to announce our new and updated resources (below). We hope these materials will help survivors and victim service providers who are trying to navigate technology, privacy, and safety. All of the materials are available in both English and Spanish.
Data Brokers: What they are and what you can do about them
This resource explains the risks to survivor privacy posed by data brokers and different potential strategies to address this issue in privacy planning. It is an overhaul of the previous resource on data brokers and contains new content. The intended audience is survivors and victim service providers.
Removing Sensitive Content from the Internet
This resource explains steps that survivors or victim service providers can take to have survivors’ personally identifying and/or intimate content from both host websites and search engine results in the course of privacy planning.
Safety and Privacy Tips for Older Technology
While less frequently seen in the field, some older technologies are still used against survivors. This new resource aims to preserve this useful information, while also removing it from more frequently used resources to improve length and readability of those other resources.
