Instilling a sense of coercive
But according to Ms Shearman, the use of monitoring and tracking devices can magnify a victim's sense of subjugation, and a feeling that his or her oppressor is omnipresent in their lives.
The most common forms of technology-facilitated abuse, she says, involve monitoring someone's habits via social media, harassing via text messages, or using GPS tracking technology to stalk.
"A lot of people don't realise that factory settings on most mobiles include things like automatic check-in and geo-tagging for photos on Facebook," she says.
