Technology enabled abuse

Technology enabled abuse is the use of technology (such as the internet, social media, mobile phones, computers, and surveillance devices) to perpetrate abusive behaviour against a person. Such behaviour includes; to threaten, intimidate, control, abuse, harass, punish, stalk and humiliate.

Examples of abusive behaviour

• Making numerous and unwanted calls to a person’s mobile phone.
• Sending threatening and/or abusive messages via text or through applications such as Whatsapp, Snapchat, Facebook messaging, Twitter etc.
• Hacking into a person’s email or social media account to discover information about them.
• Hacking into a person’s email or social media account to impersonate them and send abusive messages to family/friends of that person.
• Using surveillance devices to spy on a person.
• Using tracking devices to follow a person.
• Sharing, or threatening to share intimate pictures of a person.