Avast joins the coalition amidst an unprecedented uptick in tech abuse
When it comes to combating domestic abuse, it takes a village. And in the case of people who utilize software to covertly monitor their spouse, partner, or child’s digital device without their knowledge, that village is the Coalition Against Stalkerware, which Avast officially joined earlier this year.
Avast is joining the Electronic Frontier Foundation, the National Network to End Domestic Violence (NNEDV), Operation Safe Escape, Weisser Ring other leading security software companies in the fight against digital tracking and abuse.
“NNEDV is thrilled to see how the Coalition Against Stalkerware has grown,” Erica Olsen, Safety Net project director for the National Network to end Domestic Violence (NNEDV), says in a press release about the partnership. “There is such power in companies and organizations coming together to collectively address an issue like this. These partnerships, between security companies and victim services, can create new approaches and policies to addressing technology abuse that truly have an impact.”
The timing couldn’t be better, as Avast Threat Labs has found a 55.2 increase in stalkerware — which is also sometimes called “spouseware” or “creepware” — since the start of the Covid-19 pandemic. The increase is likely due to the fact that stay-at-home orders give suspicious and potentially abusive people increased access to their partners’ phones.
“Stalkerware has been running rampant since the start of the pandemic and it’s o ..
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