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🔐 4 steps to avoid digital coercive control1️⃣ Change passwords & recovery details 2️⃣ Enable 2FA & check devices 3️⃣ Review app permissions & shared accounts 4️⃣ Seek support if you suspect stalkerwareYour digital safety matters.#DigitalSafety #GBVPrevention #SHIELDProjectEU

🔐 AI needs strong data protection As AI tools evolve, protecting personal data and ensuring transparency is essential to safeguard people’s rights online. Responsible AI means innovation that protects privacy and prevents harm. #DataProtection #DigitalSafety #SHIELDproject

🎥 “If tracking is done through an app, it’s not stalking.” ❌ FALSE. Secretly tracking someone’s location, messages, or devices is cyberstalking. That’s not care — it’s control. Digital control is violence. #Cyberstalking #DigitalSafety #GBVPrevention #SHIELDProjectEU

🤖 AI can help detect gender-based violence by analysing voice patterns — recognising stress signals while protecting privacy. Technology can support prevention when used ethically. 🔗 phys.org/news/2026-02-a… #AIforGood #GBVPrevention #SHIELDProject #DigitalSafety

🛡️ Privacy is protection. Tools supporting people at risk of GBV must collect only what’s necessary, avoid precise location by default, and use strong security & clear data limits 🔐Weak privacy can cause harm. Design must always assume risk. #GBVPrevention #SHIELDProjectEU

🚨 4 signs of doxxing 1️⃣ Sharing private info without consent 2️⃣ Exposing someone to trigger harassment 3️⃣ Using data to intimidate or silence 4️⃣ Causing real-world risk or harm Doxxing is digital abuse. #StopDoxxing #DigitalSafety #SHIELDProjectEU

🤖 AI can help intervene before gender-based violence escalates, reducing reliance on victim action and enabling earlier support. 📘 devdiscourse.com/article/techno… #AIForGood #GBVPrevention #SHIELDProjectEU

📍 SHIELD TPM in Bilbao (12–13 Jan) Partners reviewed Year 1 progress and worked on the next steps, including the first developments of our chatbot to help recognise domestic & gender-based violence. More soon. Stay tuned. #SHIELDProject #TPMBilbao #GBVPrevention #TechForGood

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🌍 In South Africa, Leonora Tima turned personal tragedy into tech for change. She built an AI-powered “auntie” chatbot to help women facing abuse — private, accessible, life-saving. This is what #TechForGood looks like. #SHIELDProject #GBVPrevention

💡 Preventing gender-based violence online is defending democracy. When women and gender-diverse people are silenced, society loses voices we need. SHIELD uses an intersectional approach and tools like our self-assessment chatbot to help users spot GBV early and get support.

🟣 25N — International Day to End Violence Against Women We stand against all forms of violence, offline and online. AI, awareness & action matter. 💜 #25N #EndVAW #SHIELDProjectEU

🔍 EU research on sexual harassment still misses key inequalities. 📘 theloop.ecpr.eu/why-european-r… #Intersectionality #GBV #SHIELDProject

Ethical tech = safer, fairer digital spaces for all. 💪 🔗 consilium.europa.eu/en/press/press… #AIForGood #GenderEquality #DigitalSafety

🇪🇺 The EU Council calls for stronger efforts to advance gender equality in the AI-driven digital age. At #SHIELDProjectEU, we believe AI must empower — not exclude.

5 ALERT SIGNS OF DIGITAL HARASSMENT 🚨 Constant monitoring Contact after blocking Sharing private content Doxxing/shaming Threats & guilt-tripping Online abuse is real. 🛡️ Know the signs. #CyberSafety #OnlineHarassment #SHIELDProject

Your phone knows your location. Your watch tracks your sleep. But who else is watching? 👁️‍🗨️ The Cyber Resilience Act is a wake-up call. 🛡️ Secure by design = protection by default. #CyberResilience #DigitalSafety #SHIELDProject

💬 Words online have power. 1 in 3 young people say they’ve been bullied online — UNICEF report. Cyberbullying hurts as much as offline violence. Let’s build digital empathy & respect. 💜 🔗 unicef.org/press-releases… #DigitalEmpathy #OnlineRespect #GBVPrevention #SHIELDProjectEU

🚨 Digital abuse is on the rise: stalking, trolling & non-consensual image sharing silence women & restrict freedoms online. 👉 Read more via UN Women: unwomen.org/en/articles/fa… #DigitalSafety #GBVPrevention #OnlineSafety #UNWomen

🚀 Our website is live & thriving! 🛡️✨ Discover all the latest news, outputs & resources from the SHIELD Project. 👉 Visit us now: shieldprojecteu.com #SHIELDProjectEU #DigitalSafety #GBVPrevention #AIForGood