Keynote Address: Mitigating Technology Abuse in Intimate Partner Violence
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Research group combines interviews (50 professionals, large survivor focus groups) with online measurements and tool analysis to show most abuse uses shared device or account compromise rather than exotic exploits. Forum crawl finds ~20% of threads discussing surveillance tactics; Play Store searches and manual review reveal many dual‑use apps. A Clinic to End Tech Abuse deploys a USB spyware scanner (75 devices scanned, few spyware hits; account takeover is far more common), partners with NYC Mayor’s Office, and informs platform and AV changes.
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chapters (27)
- 0:00Intro
- 0:50Background
- 2:50Research Background
- 4:20NYC Mayors Office
- 5:20Study
- 6:00Client Story
- 10:30Threat Models vs Threats
- 11:30Examples of Threats
- 14:40Research Data
- 16:30Model
- 20:00Measurement Studies
- 22:00Addressing IBV spyware
- 24:30Supporting IBV survivors
- 28:52Clinic to End Tech Abuse
- 32:00Advocate Scientist Model
- 35:02Questions
- 37:50Who is behind the cottage industry
- 39:45Advice for students
- 41:37Drawing the line between good and bad
- 43:38How do we fix it
- 45:06Helping victims who return
- 47:29Impact on social relationships
- 48:43Lessons learned
- 50:40Financial abuse
- 52:13Threats
- 54:35Deplatforming
- 55:58Is advocate science sustainable
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