00:00This is really to raise awareness about technology-facilitated abuse as a form, of course, of control.
00:09So, yes, of course, in relationships, we may agree to share information, including pass
00:14codes, which we generally wouldn't recommend.
00:17But the point is here is that, in domestic and family violence situations, technology-facilitated
00:23violence is almost ubiquitous.
00:26And this extends the abuse through surveillance, harassment and tracking.
00:32And this is—these are the attitudes that we're concerned about today, that one in
00:36four Australians think that they should be given pass codes, that one in eight Australians
00:44think that they should be able to track their partners and the like.
00:50There's a difference between privacy and consent, and then trying to tether your partner
00:55to an intimate relationship through technology, rather than doing this as a cooperative thing.
01:02We take reports from the general public for image-based abuse, which is the nonconsensual
01:07sharing of intimate images, but also serious adult cyber abuse.
01:10And a lot of these reports are from women who are in domestic and family violence situations
01:15and that are experiencing a lot of harassment, stalking and doxing.
01:21So, this is where your technology can be used as a weapon against you, rather than as a
01:26tool or a lifeline.
01:28And sometimes it's decidedly low-tech.
01:30It's 500 harassing text messages in a day.
01:34It's aggressive microtransactions in banking deposits.
01:40It can be drones over safe houses or cars actually stalling a kilometer beyond the family
01:46home.
01:48Technology is ubiquitous, and this is what makes coercive control using technology feel
01:53isolating but also all-encompassing.
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