Technology-Facilitated Gender-Based Violence

Technology-Facilitated Gender-Based Violence: An Overview 1 As the first publication in this series, this paper In order to contribute to this research area, CIGI serves as an introduction to TFGBV and many of and the IDRC have embarked on a two-year the concepts that will serve as the basis for this research project entitled Supporting a Safer research project. [...] In 2021, this project will survey representative Finally, it highlights research that has identified samples of individuals from 18 countries, the the individual and systemic harms of TFGBV, majority of which are lower- and middle-income including psychological and emotional effects, countries, to learn about people’s experiences with privacy and safety concerns, the silencing of TFGBV in these re [...] A study from Southern Inuit, First Nations and Métis women face some India surveyed 881 women in college and found of the highest rates of gender-based violence that 83 percent of those women who had faced in the country, and online harassment is part online harassment experienced sexual harassment, of that violence (Driscol 2020). [...] A study from Brazil found that more A second well-known American case involved the than half of the respondents (60 percent) to its 2014 celebrity nude photo leak, where hackers survey had originally authorized or provided the stealthily and illegally accessed the cloud storage recording to the abuser in the context of a sexual accounts of several prominent, mainly female, relationship, in some ca [...] One volume websites were predominantly of women; of the earliest widely reported cases of the non- comments on the images appeared to be mainly consensual distribution of intimate images was made by men; and these comments used sexist that of Hunter Moore in the United States.