The key thing to understand about technology-facilitated domestic violence, one expert said, is that it is so common because it is “old behaviour with new tools”.
“Civil litigation is very costly and a lot of victims are not going to pursue that route,” Al-Alosi said.
"One of our main projects is providing smartphones to survivors so they can stay connected," Bentley told BuzzFeed News. “When it first started happening, we thought the reason was because [the survivor] was under a lot of pressure and they were telling him where they were, but then we realised something else was going on when we had a case where a client hopped on a bus and a perpetrator hopped on at the next bus stop,” Bentley said.
The key thing to understand about technology-facilitated domestic violence, Bentley said, is that it is so common because it is “old behaviour with new tools”.“If you think about the behaviours in a coercive and controlling relationship, things like monitoring what she is doing and controlling her finances or controlling what she does and who she sees, isolating her, abusing her emotionally and verbally — these can now also be done with technology,” she said.
Perpetrators can install software on their partner’s phone without their knowledge that monitors the device and the person’s location, text messages, pictures, videos, who they are communicating with and what they say. “It used to be the case that courts might mandate that dad had to provide the child with a phone to go to mum’s, which is of course providing the child with a tracking device really,” she said.Bentley said although using a carriage service to harass or threaten to cause serious harm or kill someone was a federal offence, women were increasingly finding their inboxes of abusive text messages were taken seriously by local magistrates.
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