“As the [monitoring and GPS] technology has become more popular or more widespread or cheaper, we’ve seen an increase of abusers misusing those technologies for abuse,” said Karen Bentley, chief executive of Wesnet, which represents 350 family violence service members.
“We see new and emerging ways that tech is being used that we didn’t back in 2015, such as children being given phones or other devices as a way for abusers to contact or monitor the mother of the child and children’s social media accounts being used.”
Terms of reference for the Law Reform Commission’s review of Victoria’s stalking laws were released on Thursday following a request by the family of murdered woman Celeste Manno, who was stalked in the year prior to her death in November.
Cyber security company Kaspersky and Wesnet will launch free technology developed by the company as part of the global Coalition Against Stalkerware on March 1 at the Melbourne business festival Pause Fest.
Wesnet is the first Australian family violence organisation to join the international coalition, and will help distribute the open-source program, TinyTech, to enable family violence services to identify if victim-survivors are being monitore ..
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