Ending Online Violence

Using images to coerce, threaten, harass, objectify, or abuse. One form is image-based sexual abuse (IBSA), which involves taking, sharing, or threatening to share sexually explicit images without consent.

An act of violence perpetrated by one or more individuals that is committed, assisted, aggravated, or amplified in part or fully by the use of information and communication technologies or digital media, against a person.

When this involves individuals under 18, it is classified as Technology-Facilitated Child Sexual Exploitation and Abuse (TF-CSEA) and requires child protection interventions.

The sexual abuse of children facilitated by technology, such as online grooming, and sexual abuse committed elsewhere and then streamed or repeated by sharing it online through images and videos.

Often called “sextortion” when sexual information or images are involved, this is the act of threatening to share information about an individual, including images or videos, with the public, friends, or family online unless a demand is met.

Acts of a sexually exploitative nature carried out against a child that have, at some stage, a connection to the digital environment. This includes the use of technology that results in sexual exploitation, or causes material documenting that exploitation to be produced, bought, sold, possessed, distributed, or transmitted.

Communication in speech, writing, or behavior that attacks or uses pejorative or discriminatory language about a person or group on the basis of their religion, ethnicity, nationality, race, color, descent, gender, or another identity factor.

Communicating false statements about a person that injure that person’s reputation.

Using technology to stalk and monitor someone’s activities and behaviors in real time or historically. It involves repeated unwanted monitoring, communication, or threats.

Disclosing personal data online with malicious suggestions for others to contact the person to cause further harm or with indecent intent.

Using technology to gain illegal or unauthorized access to systems or resources to acquire personal information, alter or modify information, or slander and denigrate a survivor.