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Digital Security and Privacy in Abuse Settings

Mapping the role digital technologies play in intimate partner violence and developing new materials, tools and technologies that improve security, privacy and safety for victims of abuse.

Intimate partner violence is a pervasive problem, affecting roughly one third of all women and one quarter of all men at some point in their lives. As digital technologies become more prevalent in daily life, they also play an increasingly large role in intimate partner violence — through cyberstalking, location tracking, remote cameras, monitoring contacts on social networks, spyware and more. However, current understanding of how abusers find, install and use technology to abuse their victims is limited. The goal of Diana Freed’s research is to map the role digital technologies play across the intimate partner violence ecosystem and develop new materials, tools and technologies that improve security, privacy and safety for victims of abuse.

Topics: Access, Equity and Justice; Law, Government and Policy

The Team

  • Graduate student:  Diana Freed, information science
  • Special committee chair:  Nicki Dell, Department of Information Science

    Cornell Tech

  • Community partner:  New York City Mayor’s Office to Combat Domestic Violence

In the News

JULY 2, 2019
The Simple Way Apple and Google Let Domestic Abusers Stalk Victims
– Wired.com

JUNE 25, 2019 
Diana Freed on Technology-Enabled Domestic Violence
– Good Code Podcast

JULY 23, 2018
Apps make it easy for domestic abusers to spy
– Cornell Chronicle

FEBRUARY 23, 2018 
How Tech is Failing Victims of Intimate Partner Violence: Thomas Ristenpart at CITP
– Freedom to Tinker website

FEBRUARY 12, 2018 
Cornell Tech Partners with NYC Mayor’s Office on first Web Portal for Domestic Violence Survivors
– Cornell Tech website

FEBRUARY 9, 2018 
New York City Launches First-Ever Web Portal for Domestic Violence Survivors
– Observer.com


Publications

Diana Freed, Jackeline Palmer, Diana Minchala, Karen Levy, Thomas Ristenpart, and Nicola Dell.
“A Stalker’s Paradise”: How Intimate Partner Abusers Exploit Technology
ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2018). Acceptance Rate: 25%). Best Paper Award

Diana Freed, Jackeline Palmer, Diana Minchala, Karen Levy, Thomas Ristenpart, and Nicola Dell.
Digital Technologies and Intimate Partner Violence: A Qualitative Analysis with Multiple Stakeholders.
Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction: Volume1 Issue CSCW, November 2017. Article No. 46.

Rahul Chatterjee, Periwinkle Doerfler, Hadas Orgad, Sam Havron, Jackeline Palmer, Diana Freed, Karen Levy, Nicola Dell, Damon McCoy, and Thomas Ristenpart.
The Spyware Used in Intimate Partner Violence. IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (Oakland 2018).


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