City, NortonLifeLock announce partnership to protect domestic violence survivors
Updated Feb 11, 2021;
Posted Feb 11, 2021
Domestic violence advocates have been forced to alter tactics to help survivors as a result of the coronavirus pandemic. (Associated Press/Rich Pedroncelli, file)
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STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. The Mayor’s Office to End Domestic and Gender-Based Violence (ENDGBV) and the Mayor’s Fund to Advance New York City announced a partnership with NortonLifeLock Thursday to provide survivors of domestic and gender-based violence with cybersecurity protection.
NortonLifeLock is providing the city with 2,000 one-year Norton 360 Deluxe licenses, about a $90,000 total value, that will offer device security to survivors who could potentially be targeted virtually.
Avast Joins Coalition Against Stalkerware
Membership and improvements to identifying stalkerware through mobile security products reflects commitment to working with industry partners to end tech abuse
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PRAGUE and REDWOOD CITY, Calif., Feb. 8, 2021 /PRNewswire/ Avast (LSE:AVST), a global leader in digital security and privacy products, today announced that it has joined the
Coalition Against Stalkerware, a group of cybersecurity vendors, victim services, and academic researchers working to combat tech abuse. Avast has also announced that it has added functionality to its mobile antivirus product that will alert users with a customized detection notification for apps known to be stalkerware.
Jan. 26, 2021
Soon after the first round of stimulus payments went out in April, tax attorney Nancy Rossner was hearing from survivors of intimate partner violence: They were being blocked from receiving the relief they were owed.
“We started getting calls from survivors and advocates for survivors whose stimulus payment was deposited or sent to their former partner, who was typically their abuser, and they were refusing the survivor access to the payments,” said Rossner, a senior staff attorney for the Community Tax Law Project, a Virginia-based tax clinic that aides low-income families.
Rossner recalled one of the first women who reached out to her. The woman had recently divorced her abusive husband, taking the children with her. Before the pandemic, the pair had decided to file a joint 2019 tax return. When the Internal Revenue Service issued the relief payment tied to the Cares Act to date, still the most substantial direct financial relief the federal government has gi