Tech Safety Planning Toolkit

This toolkit provides women, youth, gender-diverse people, and frontline workers with safety planning information to strategically use technology in ways that can enhance safety and take back some control if they are being harassed, threatened, stalked, or abused through a perpetrator’s misuse of technology.

Survivors experiencing violence and anti-violence workers are increasingly seeing perpetrators misuse technology as part of their abuse. Technology-facilitated gender-based violence (TFGBV) is when technology (such as a smartphone, computer, Smartwatch, or a Smart home device) is misused to commit violent abusive acts such as domestic violence, harassment, stalking, sexual assault, impersonation, extortion, and the non-consensual filming and sharing of intimate images.

Though the content of this toolkit is up to date at the time of publishing, we know that technology is constantly emerging and changing. We encourage you to check our toolkit regularly for updated information and connect with your local shelter or transition house for additional support.