Episode 166: How to Protect Yourself From Digital Abuse with Adam Dodge
The Divorce Survival Guide Podcast
Kate Anthony
4.4 • 573 Ratings
🗓️ 5 May 2022
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
Adam is a licensed attorney whose work is characterized by his dedication to preventing and addressing the ways adults and children are harmed online and via their devices. He is the founder of EndTAB and is an internationally recognized digital safety expert who believes you do not have to be a tech expert to stay safe in the digital age.
Together we discuss all things digital safety, autonomy, and abuse. Adam shines a light on unauthorized account access, digital gaslighting, and tracking devices. This episode is a reminder that you can prevent the violation of your digital safety, often more easily than you think. Online abuse is deeply traumatic and harmful. You deserve to be safe in your relationships, whether you are offline or online.
Show Highlights
- How technology is used as a tactic in abuse (4:53)
- Unauthorized account access: personal autonomy includes consent to your accounts, technology, and apps (6:01)
- What you need to know about password safety and other steps to take in order to protect your online accounts (9:19)
- Dealing with harassment on social media, why blocking someone could have unintended consequences, and why you might want to mute/restrict instead (17:03)
- Adam answers the question, "Can my Amazon Echo be used for eavesdropping?" (25:39)
- How to figure out if you have a spy device in your home (26:38)
- Everything you need to know about stalkerware (39:10)
- Can your ex mirror your computer or device and see everything you are inputting? (34:28)
- Adam tells us about Smartphone air tags which are being used as a tracking device (41:19)
Learn more about Adam Dodge:
The founder of EndTAB, Adam is an internationally recognized digital safety expert who believes you do not have to be a tech expert to stay safe in the digital age. His work is characterized by his dedication to preventing and addressing the ways adults and children are harmed online and via their devices. He has written and presented extensively on digital safety, online abuse prevention, technology-enabled abuse, and co-authored the first safety advisory on the emerging threat of 'deepfakes.'
A frequent speaker and lecturer at universities and national conferences, Adam is also a special advisor to the Coalition Against Stalkerware and sits on the World Economic Forum's Digital Justice Advisory Committee. His work and expertise has been featured on CBS and in Vogue, the MIT Technology Review, Washington Post, NBC News, the Verge, Mashable, Wall Street Journal, SELF Magazine, Los Angeles Times, GQ, HuffPost and others. Adam is a licensed attorney in California and prior to founding EndTAB, he spent 9 years leading the legal department at Southern California Domestic Violence Nonprofit. He earned his B.A. from UC Santa Barbara and his J.D. by way of McGeorge School of Law and Hastings College of the Law.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Divorce Survival Guide podcast, where we have open and honest conversations about co-parenting, separation, divorce, and the hardest question of all, should you stay or should you go. |
| 0:17.8 | I'm Kate Anthony, your divorce survival guide, and I'm here to help you navigate some of |
| 0:23.3 | the roughest waters you've ever swum in and answer some of your toughest questions. I've been to |
| 0:29.1 | hell and back, and now it's my mission in life to help you get to the other side of this process |
| 0:35.1 | with your sanity and your heart intact. |
| 0:42.8 | Hey, everyone. Welcome back. My guest today is Adam Dodge. Adam is the founder of End tab, |
| 0:53.7 | and he is an internationally recognized digital safety expert. |
| 0:59.5 | Hello. |
| 1:01.0 | Adam believes that you do not have to be a tech expert to stay safe in the digital age. |
| 1:06.4 | His work is characterized by his dedication to preventing and addressing the ways adults and children are |
| 1:12.0 | harmed online and via their devices. He acts as a special advisor to the coalition against |
| 1:19.5 | stockerware and sits on the World Economic Forum's Digital Justice Advisory Committee. |
| 1:24.9 | Adam is also a licensed attorney whose work and expertise have been featured on |
| 1:29.5 | CBS and in Vogue, the MIT Technology Review, Washington Post, NBC, GQ, and others. And how cool is that? |
| 1:40.6 | I met Adam when I was doing my 40-hour domestic violence advocacy training, and he did a |
| 1:47.8 | presentation on this digital safety stuff, and I immediately emailed him and was like, |
| 1:55.2 | please go on my podcast, because so many of you deal with this. And, you know, the good news is, as I said in reading his bio, |
| 2:04.3 | that you do not have to be a tech expert in order to stay safe. And Adam is going to walk us through |
| 2:10.1 | a ton of ways in which things that we can do right now to stay digitally safe. |
| 2:18.8 | Before I give you my interview with Adam, I just also want to tell you yet again that my, |
| 2:27.4 | should I stare or should I go, is brand spank and new. |
| 2:31.1 | In case you missed me talking about it the last few weeks, it is brand spank and new. |
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