Technology-facilitated stalking and abuse is the use of technology (such as the internet, social media, mobile phones, computers, and surveillance devices) to stalk and perpetrate abuse on a person.
Such behaviour includes:
- making numerous and unwanted calls to a person’s mobile phone
- sending threatening and/or abusive messages (texting messaging, Whatsapp, Snapchat, Facebook messaging, Twitter)
- hacking into a person’s email or social media account to discover information about them
- hacking into a person’s email or social media account to impersonate them and send abusive messages to family/friends of that person
- using surveillance devices to spy on a person
- sharing, or threatening to share, intimate pictures of a person
There are three primary areas of law relevant to people experiencing technology-facilitated stalking and abuse:
- Protection Orders
- Surveillance and Recordings
- Relevant Criminal Offences
For more information, please click on the relevant State or Territory.
ACT
ReCharge-Legal-Guide-ACT-Criminal-Offences.pdf
ReCharge-Legal-Guide-ACT-Surveillance.pdf
ReCharge-Legal-Guide-ACT-AVO.pdf
New South Wales
ReCharge-Legal-Guide-NSW-Surveillance.pdf
ReCharge-Legal-Guide-NSW-Criminal-Offences.pdf
ReCharge-Legal-Guide-NSW-AVO.pdf
Northern Territory
ReCharge-Legal-Guide-NT-Criminal-Offences.pdf
ReCharge-Legal-Guide-NT-Surveillance.pdf
ReCharge-Legal-Guide-NT-AVO.pdf
Queensland
ReCharge-Legal-Guide-QLD-Criminal-Offences.pdf
ReCharge-Legal-Guide-QLD-Surveillance.pdf
ReCharge-Legal-Guide-QLD-AVO.pdf
South Australia
ReCharge-Legal-Guide-SA-Criminal-Offences.pdf
ReCharge-Legal-Guide-SA-Surveillance.pdf
ReCharge-Legal-Guide-SA-AVO.pdf
Tasmania
ReCharge-Legal-Guide-TAS-Criminal-Offences.pdf
ReCharge-Legal-Guide-TAS-Surveillance.pdf
ReCharge-Legal-Guide-TAS-AVO.pdf
Victoria
ReCharge-Legal-Guide-VIC-Criminal-Offences.pdf
ReCharge-Legal-Guide-VIC-Surveillance.pdf
ReCharge-Legal-Guide-VIC-AVO.pdf
Western Australia
ReCharge-Legal-Guide-WA-Criminal-Offences.pdf