Something like 90% of dv victims experience tech abuse of one form or another - mostly email, text and FB harassment and stalking. About 20% experience sophisticated stalking and harassment using tech - monitoring gps on car, weaponising wifi router to monitor all traffic as well as invisible apps monitoring phone traffic. Combined with microphones in soft toys and in home where women can't afford the service to detect them and pretty soon the target is nearly sent insane.
The IOT devices add another layer of complexity to cyberstalking - because most are launched with zero security to prevent their misuse ( not a big deal to stop it if only manufacturers were forced to).
Yet again women at their most vulnerable are targeted in a tech guerilla war where there is zero help - police are inept technically and dismiss any reports unless accompanied by evidence -and the evidence is very hard to obtain unless it's simple overt harassment. Women have to change phones and laptops as a precaution but many have no funds to buy replacements.
It makes me ropable that the tech world is virtually lawless and that's a testament to the lack of appropriate competencies in those in law enforcement and in power who should have foreseen this as it was obvious decades ago.
More women get murdered by intimate partners than people killed by terrorism in UK, as in most developed countries yet who gets the funding fir cyber security ? You can be sure it's not the women who need cyber protection that get help but are instead left as "open goals" for their hostile and malicious exes. All ignored by politicians and law enforcement
Good resource but really think about it - when women have left abuse they are overwhelmed and devastated mostly - it's not a reasonable expectation for them to undertake sophisticated cyber precautions never mind get their head around a document like this.