Detects technology-facilitated gender-based violence - how digital tools are used to perpetrate, amplify, and sustain gender-based violence. Technology does not create the violence; it facilitates and amplifies it through scale, speed, anonymity, permanence, and cross-border reach. Includes heightened sensitivity for minors.
Endpoint
Cost: 5 credits per call
Request Body
Response
TFGBV Categories
Tag
Label
What It Detects
IMAGE_BASED_ABUSE
Image-Based Abuse
Non-consensual sharing or threatening to share intimate images, revenge porn, deepfake pornography
CYBER_STALKING
Cyber Stalking
Persistent unwanted digital contact, monitoring, surveillance, fake accounts to follow
ONLINE_HARASSMENT
Online Harassment
Gender-targeted harassment, misogynistic abuse, rape threats, coordinated harassment campaigns
DOXING
Doxing
Releasing or threatening to release personal information to enable real-world harassment
IMPERSONATION
Impersonation
Creating fake profiles to damage reputation, catfishing, impersonating someone online
OUTING
Outing
Forcibly revealing sexual orientation, gender identity, or other private information without consent
POST_SEPARATION_ABUSE
Post-Separation Abuse
Using technology to continue abuse after a relationship ends
SEXTORTION
Sextortion
Using intimate content to extort money, more images, or compliance
DIGITAL_COERCION
Digital Coercion
Demanding passwords, controlling social media, dictating who can be contacted online
SEXUALISED_DEEPFAKES
Sexualised Deepfakes
Creating AI-generated sexual content using someone's likeness, AI "nudification"
HATE_SPEECH_GENDERED
Gendered Hate Speech
Gender-based hate speech, incel rhetoric, transphobic threats, misogynistic manifestos
REPRODUCTIVE_SURVEILLANCE
Reproductive Surveillance
Using technology to monitor reproductive health - period apps, health data surveillance
ECONOMIC_ABUSE_DIGITAL
Economic Abuse (Digital)
Using technology for financial control - locking out of accounts, monitoring spending
TFGBV Amplifiers
The tfgbv_amplifiers object identifies which technology amplifiers are active.
Amplifier
Meaning
scale
Abuse can reach a large number of people simultaneously
speed
Abuse can spread rapidly, making intervention difficult
anonymity
Perpetrator is harder to identify and hold accountable
permanence
Abusive content remains accessible indefinitely
cross_border
Abuse transcends geographical boundaries
Intersectionality Flags
The intersectionality_flags array identifies compounding discrimination factors that amplify harm.
Flag
lgbtqia
LGBTQIA+ identity-based targeting
disability
Ableist + gendered targeting
racial
Intersecting racial and gender harassment
indigenous
Indigenous women-specific threats
sex_worker
Sex work-related targeting
minor
Child/adolescent-specific vulnerability