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Safety Alert: computer use can be monitored and is impossible to completely clear. If you are in danger, please use a safer computer, call your local hotline , and/or call the National Domestic Violence Hotline at 1-800-799-SAFE. If you are at a safer computer, click here to read more.

Internet & Computer Safety

There are hundreds of ways that computers record everything yo do on the computer and on the internet.
If you are in danger, please try to use a safer computer – one to which the abusing person does not have direct, or even remote (hacking) access.

It might be safer to use a computer in a public library, at a community technology center (CTC) www.ctcnet.org , at a trusted friend’s house, or at an internet café.

If you think your activities are being monitored, they probably are. Abusive people are often

If you are in danger, please

Call 911
Call your local hotline, or
Call the National Domestic Violence Hotline at: 1-800-799-SAFE

Email is not a safe or confidential way to talk to someone about the danger or abuse in your life. Please call us instead.

Traditional “corded” phones are more private than cell phones or cordless phones.

controlling and want to know your every move. You don’t need to be a computer programmer or have special skills to monitor someone’s computer activities – anyone can do it and there are many ways to monitor.

Computers can provide a lot of information about what you look at on the internet, the emails you send, and other activities. It is impossible to delete or clear all computer “footprints.”

If you think you may be monitored on your home computer, you might consider no home internet use or “safer” internet surfing. If you are planning to flee, don’t use yhour home computer, or any computer to which an abuser has direct or remote access, to look at classified ads for jobs and apartments, bus tickets, etc., for your destination. Use a safer computer to research your escape plan.

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