Digital Technologies and Human Trafficking: Combating Coercive Control and Navigating Digital Autonomy

要旨

This paper describes a qualitative study that interrogates the types of technology-facilitated coercive control faced by survivors of human trafficking and uncovers potential interventions to aid survivors’ recovery. Via semi-structured interviews with 21 participants, including trafficking survivors and professional advocates, we show how traffickers use technology as a lever for control, engaging in surveillance, blackmail, impersonation, and harassment as they compel survivors to stay in the trafficking situation. In recovery, digital footprints keep survivors tethered to their trafficking experience, impacting their digital autonomy, economic mobility, and feelings of safety. Nevertheless, technology can also be a valuable tool for survivors’ recovery, connecting them to essential resources and support systems. We discuss the need for interventions and services that account for the specificity of the trafficking context to help survivors attain digital safety and autonomy, including the potential to adapt existing tech safety services designed for other contexts to human trafficking.

著者
Sophie Stephenson
University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin, United States
Lana Ramjit
Cornell Tech, New York, New York, United States
Thomas Ristenpart
Cornell Tech, New York, New York, United States
Nicola Dell
Cornell Tech, New York, New York, United States
DOI

10.1145/3706598.3713544

論文URL

https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3706598.3713544

動画

会議: CHI 2025

The ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (https://chi2025.acm.org/)

セッション: Personal Data and Ethical Design

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