Resource Online safety 101: What every woman and girl should know
Resource Online safety 101: What every woman and girl should know
Nov 21 2025, 9:09 AM
https://web.archive.org/web/20251121160801/https://www.unwomen.org/en/articles/explainer/online-safety-101-what-every-woman-and-girl-should-know
Quote:What is digital abuse?
Digital abuse (also called technology-facilitated violence against women and girls) covers a wide spectrum of violent behaviours. It can look like:
- Online harassment and cyberstalking: repeated, unwanted messages, cyber-flashing, creepshots, surveillance such as tracking your location, or monitoring your activity.
- Image-based and deepfake abuse: sharing private images without consent, or creating AI-generated sexual content through morphing, splicing, or superimposing photographs and videos to create deepfakes. These are sometimes called revenge porn.
- Violent pornography: images of sexual aggression and gendered violence in pornography widely available on the internet which is normalizing and perpetuating violence against women and girls.
- Trolling, threats, and blackmail: abusive comments designed to silence or intimidate, gender-based hate speech, threatening to share personal information, photos or videos of someone.
- Digital dating abuse: using apps or social media to control, pressure, or isolate a partner.
- Online grooming: using digital platforms to build trust or a relationship with someone – often a minor – with the intention of sexual exploitation and trafficking.
- Doxxing: publishing personal information online to endanger or intimidate.
- Identity theft: impersonation and the creation of fake profiles.
- Control of access: restricting or monitoring a woman’s access to shared devices, internet, or power sources.
https://www.unwomen.org/en/articles/explainer/online-safety-101-what-every-woman-and-girl-should-know
https://web.archive.org/web/20251121160801/https://www.unwomen.org/en/articles/explainer/online-safety-101-what-every-woman-and-girl-should-know
Quote:What is digital abuse?
Digital abuse (also called technology-facilitated violence against women and girls) covers a wide spectrum of violent behaviours. It can look like:
- Online harassment and cyberstalking: repeated, unwanted messages, cyber-flashing, creepshots, surveillance such as tracking your location, or monitoring your activity.
- Image-based and deepfake abuse: sharing private images without consent, or creating AI-generated sexual content through morphing, splicing, or superimposing photographs and videos to create deepfakes. These are sometimes called revenge porn.
- Violent pornography: images of sexual aggression and gendered violence in pornography widely available on the internet which is normalizing and perpetuating violence against women and girls.
- Trolling, threats, and blackmail: abusive comments designed to silence or intimidate, gender-based hate speech, threatening to share personal information, photos or videos of someone.
- Digital dating abuse: using apps or social media to control, pressure, or isolate a partner.
- Online grooming: using digital platforms to build trust or a relationship with someone – often a minor – with the intention of sexual exploitation and trafficking.
- Doxxing: publishing personal information online to endanger or intimidate.
- Identity theft: impersonation and the creation of fake profiles.
- Control of access: restricting or monitoring a woman’s access to shared devices, internet, or power sources.