Recent research, Driving Blind: The Unexamined Risk of Connected Cars, by Katharine Kemp at UNSW, highlights serious flaws in the data practices of new internet-connected cars in Australia, emphasising the need for urgent reform in privacy laws. While modern cars offer useful features like automatic accident detection and alerts for children left in back [...]
The introduced legislation aims to create new criminal offences to ban the sharing of non-consensual deepfake sexually explicit material. The Criminal Code Amendment (Deepfake Sexual Material) Bill 2024 will impose severe criminal penalties of up to 6 years imprisonment on those who share digitally created sexually explicit material. This behaviour can involve degrading, humiliating, [...]
Wesnet has been working with Tinder Australia over the last few months to create a Dating Safety Guide that will help survivors and the general population with learning about the safety features available in the Tinder Dating App. Although 79% (1) of Australians reported that dating app safety features were very [...]
Updated 29 March 2023 Some of our member services (specialist domestic and family violence services) have asked us about the new edit and unsending features that were announced at Apple’s WWDC event on 6 June 2022, relating to iMessaging on Apple devices. Specifically, the ability to edit within 15 minutes and unsend messages [...]
On 6 June 2022, Apple announced a new safety feature at its annual WWDC event that will significantly help victim-survivors of domestic abuse using iPhones and other connected devices. This new feature will help Apple users quickly secure their devices, making it a very helpful resource for victim-survivors of domestic abuse who are concerned [...]
Wesnet, the national peak body representing specialist women’s domestic violence services, today announced that it has joined forces with the Coalition Against Stalkerware to combat non-consensual tracking via digital device and to work towards providing support to survivors of domestic violence. Today, the UN’s International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women [...]
THE FINDINGS OF THE SECOND NATIONAL SURVEY ON TECHNOLOGY ABUSE AND DOMESTIC VIOLENCE IN AUSTRALIA Early this year Wesnet, along with Dr Delanie Woodlock and researchers from Curtin University, conducted the Second National Survey on Technology Abuse and Domestic Violence. Funded by Telstra, the survey was completed by 442 domestic violence workers across all [...]
A new resource – App Safety Centre Reviews – has been developed from the findings and published on techsafety.org.au. This will help women considering using an app to confidently choose the right app for their circumstances. The reviews will also provide a resource for frontline workers supporting survivors of abuse, to assist their clients [...]
UPDATED 31 August 2020: Thank you to everyone that participated. This survey is now closed. Wesnet will be publishing the results in November 2020. You’re invited to participate in the second national survey of how technology is being used in domestic and family violence. The first national survey was conducted in 2015 (funded by [...]
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