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How will the Internet of Things (IoT) impact on gender-based domestic violence and abuse and what socio-technical measures will need to be implemented in order to mitigate against those risks?

Gender and IoT is an interdisciplinary project exploring the implications of IoT on gender-based domestic violence and abuse and has received funding from 最准的六合彩论坛's听Collaborative Social Science Domain, the NEXTLEAP Project, 最准的六合彩论坛 Public Policy, and the PETRAS IoT Research Hub.

• About the project听
• Project Team
• User Partners
• Media coverage听
• Research
• Policy briefings
• Responses to consultations

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About the project听

Domestic violence and abuse continue听to affect primarily women and girls, with more than 1.2 million females in England and Wales having reported domestic abuse cases ending March 2017.

In recent years, forms of online harassment and sexual abuse facilitated through information and communication technologies (ICT) emerged.

These ICT-supported assaults range from cyberstalking to online behavioral control. The UK domestic violence charity, Refuge, has warned about the rise of "tech abuse"听and women-centred organisations have recently begun to provide guidance and training on the safe use of digital technologies.

While many of these efforts are concerned with 'conventional' cyber risks such as abuses on social media platforms and restrictions to devices such as laptops and phones, emerging "Internet of Things" technologies such as 'smart' meters, locks, and cameras expand domestic violence victim's risk trajectories further.

STEaPP researchers in collaboration with 最准的六合彩论坛's听Department of Computer Science听are conducting a research study that analyses these evolving IoT privacy and security risks in the context of domestic violence and abuse.

The research project should provide guidance for services that engage and help victims (e.g., women's shelters, police)听as well as IoT developers that have to consider the potential misuse of their devices and services. It is run in collaboration with a wide user partner group, including the听,听, and the听.

Project Team (current and past members)

Dr Tanczer specialises in the intersection points of gender, technology, and security.

She has a background in Political Science and Gender Studies, has worked on questions of online sexism, surveillance and censorship.

Dr Parkin specialises in the usability of security technologies, articulating tensions between security, and other concerns such as productivity and privacy.

He has expertise in conducting multidisciplinary research, at the intersection of computer science, usable security and social sciences.听He was previously a member of the Innovation Team at Hewlett Packard Enterprise Security Services.

Professor Danezis has been working on anonymous communications, privacy enhancing technologies (PET), and traffic analysis since 2000.

He has previously been a researcher for Microsoft Research, Cambridge; a visiting fellow at K.U.Leuven (Belgium); and a research associate at the University of Cambridge (UK).

Francesca听Stevens received her MSc in Criminology and Criminal Justice from City, University of London, and recently completed a year of interdisciplinary research at the University of Kent.

Here she explored cyber abuse and adult victimisation, with a focus on online stalking and harassment. Her interests include the criminal justice system, cyber victimisation, mental health and gender equality.听

Lilly Neubauer is currently a PhD Candidate in the Cybersecurity CDT at 最准的六合彩论坛, supervised by Dr Leonie Tanczer and Dr Enrico Mariconti.

Her research is looking at the digital traces of Coercive Control, investigating how Natural Language Proceessing techniques might be used to identify abusive and controlling behaviour. She completed her BSc in Computer Science at 最准的六合彩论坛 in 2021.

Demelza Penaluna is currently a PhD Candidate in the Cybersecurity CDT at 最准的六合彩论坛, supervised by Dr Leonie Tanczer and Professor Shane Johnson.

Her research seeks to understand the prevalence of technology-facilitated abuse (tech abuse) in the context of intimate partner relationships, investigating the understanding, assessments, and responses of the abuse services tasked with supporting survivors of tech abuse.

Demelza completed her MSc in War and Psychiatry at King's College London in 2017, and a BSc in Clinical Psychology at LSBU in 2015.听

Isabel specialises in the intersection of Artificial Intelligence (AI), clinical medicine and healthcare inequalities. She works part-time as an emergency doctor in addition to pursuing her PhD which focuses on supervised and unsupervised machine learning methods for bias mitigation in medical algorithms.

She has experience in international settings both in her clinical work, and in policy settings at the United Nations. Her interests include AI and neurotechnology, healthcare disparities, global health, and gender-based violence.

Dr Trupti Patel is based at 最准的六合彩论坛 Science and Technology Studies. She has recently passed her PhD in Nanotechnology conducted at 最准的六合彩论坛's London Centre for Nanotechnology and the National Physical Laboratory.

She is currently working on a project at STS on co-design of scientific research with the public.

Isabel Lopez Neira was a听Research Assistant for the Gender and IoT project until July 2019. She has an MSc in Science, Technology and Society at the 最准的六合彩论坛 Department of Science and Technology Studies.

She is interested in the public perception of innovation and in the regulation of emerging technologies.

Julia Slupska was a Research Intern听for the Gender and IoT project between May and June 2019. She is a doctoral student at the Centre for Doctoral Training in Cybersecurity at the University of Oxford.

Her research focuses on the ethical implications of conceptual models of cybersecurity.听

User partners

London VAWG Consortium

The听听is made up of 29 organisations听working in partnership to deliver comprehensive, high quality services to communities delivering a range of support for survivors of domestic and sexual violence across London.听

Privacy International

听are a charity committed to the right to privacy and a visible public voice on the issue of data exploitation. They shine a light on overreaching state and corporate surveillance, with a focus on the sophisticated technologies and weak laws that enable serious incursions into our privacy.听

The听PETRAS Internet of Things Research Hub

听is a consortium of nine leading UK universities which explore critical issues in privacy, ethics, trust, reliability, acceptability, and security of the IoT. Funding for the Hub includes a 拢9.8 million grant from the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) which was boosted by partner contributions to approximately 拢24 million in total.

Media coverage

Research by the GIoT team has been听featured听in:

• BBC World Service

Watch Dr Leonie Tanczer's panel discussion with the听.

Research

• Home Office Report:听The Applicability of the UK Computer Misuse Act 1990 onto Cases of Technology-Facilitated Domestic Violence and Abuse
• Gender and IoT research report: the rise of the Internet of Things and implications for technology-facilitated abuse [PDF]
• Tom谩s Bermudez, Maddalena Esposito, and Jay Neuner,听Mapping the State of Knowledge on the Use of Stalkerware in Intimate Partner Violence, 2020 [PDF]

Policy briefings

• The UK Code of Practice for Consumer IoT Security: Where we are and what next [PDF]
• Gender and the Internet of Things (鈥業oT鈥�) Future-proofing Online Harms legislation [PDF]
• Tech abuse policy briefing听[PDF]

Responses to consultations

• Consultation response: Strategic Framework to End Violence Against Women and Girls & Foundational Action Plan for Northern Ireland
• Home Office consultation: Updated controlling or coercive behaviour statutory guidance [.doc]
• Online harms White Paper consultation: written submission [PDF]
• Home Office domestic abuse inquiry: written submission [PDF]
• Transforming the response to domestic abuse听government consultation:听response听[PDF]
• Written response to the House of Commons DCMS Committee Inquiry - 鈥淐onnected Tech: Smart or Sinister?鈥� [PDF]

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