Recent Updates
NNEDV safety Net’s TECHnology SUMMIT 2023
Check out Task Force Co-Chairs Lindsey Song and Annie Seifullah at Safety Net’s Technology Summit 2023, where they will be presenting a workshop entitled, “How to Start a Regional Cyber Abuse Task Force”! Link below.
Call for participation - Research Survey
Are you working with victims/survivors of domestic and/or sexual violence? Are you encountering technology facilitated/cyber abuse in your work? Task force member Dr. Marina Sorochinski is running this survey to better understand understand and address the concerns and needs of professionals in organizations like yours! Please consider taking 5-10 minutes to participate: https://stjohnssoe.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_9og51kcY3IqeBkG
There is No Offline CONFERENCE (2020)
After the success of last year’s conference and given the current climate, the Task Force was eager to continue to shine the light on these issues and facilitate meaningful dialogue around the topic.
Co-sponsored by C.A. Goldberg PLLC, Sanctuary for Families, Day One, the Mayor’s Office to End Gender Based Violence, CETA, and the New York Cyber Sexual Abuse Task Force, the conference this year will be online with the theme: “There is No Offline: Technology Facilitated Abuse and the New Normal.”
Shedding Light on Underground Exchange of Tinder Profiles
LaBac found a collection of 70,000 pictures--all of them women-- scraped from Tinder. Such a collection is the goldmine for fraudsters looking to create fake personas and profiles across the web.
Cyber Abuse Conference 2019
In 2019, the task force organized the conference “The Intersection of Intimate Partner Violence and Cyber Abuse” at Brooklyn Law School. The conference consisted of expert panels discussing issues specific to helping survivors of Cyber Abuse, including panels covering:
Fighting Cyber Sexual Abuse
Criminal and Civil Litigation Strategies
City and State Legislation on Cyber Sexual Abuse (CSA)