2021-044-Litmoose discusses stalking and protecting yourself

<p>New $3 patron! 🎉Thank you John K.!</p> <p> </p> <ul> <li>National Domestic Violence Hotline at 1-800-799-7233, or by online chat.</li> <li>National Sexual Assault Hotline at 1-800-656-4673, or by online chat.</li> </ul> <p> https://www.stalkingawareness.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/SPARC_StalkngFactSheet_2018_FINAL.pdf</p> <p><br /> TALKING VICTIMIZATION </p> <p>An estimated 6-7.5 million people are #stalked in a one year period in the United States. <br /> Nearly 1 in 6 women and 1 in 17 men have experienced stalking victimization at some point in their lifetime. <br /> Using a less conservative definition of stalking, which considers any amount of fear (i.e., a little fearful, somewhat fearful, or very fearful), 1 in 4 women and 1 in 13 men reported being a victim of stalking in their lifetime.<br /> About half of all victims of stalking indicated that they were stalked before the age of 25. <br /> Stalkers use many tactics including: <br /> Approaching the victim or showing up in places when the victim didn’t want them to be there; <br /> making unwanted telephone calls; leaving the victim unwanted messages (text or voice); <br /> watching or following the victim from a distance<br /> spying on the victim with a listening device, camera, or #GPS.  (or #IOT device)</p> <p> </p> <p><br /> https://www.vice.com/en/article/d3akpk/smart-home-technology-stalking-harassment</p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p>https://www.ucl.ac.uk/steapp/sites/steapp/files/giot-report.pdf - Tech Abuse Gender and IoT Research Report </p> <p> </p> <p><br /> https://www.researchgate.net/publication/260867980_TRAPPED_TECHNOLOGY_AS_A_BARRIER_TO_LEAVING_AN_ABUSIVE_RELATIONSHIP</p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p>Center to End Technical #Abuse (CETA) https://www.ceta.tech.cornell.edu/resources</p> <p><br /> https://82beb9a6-b7db-490a-88be-9f149bafe221.filesusr.com/ugd/c4e6d5_20fe31daffd74b2fb4b4735d703dad6a.pdf -disconnect checklist</p> <p> </p> <p><br /> Tw: stalking resulting in death: </p> <p>A pattern of fixation and obsession’: How the #pandemic exacerb