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The new kind of violence against teenage girls, women, trans and queer persons, is digital in nature. Are we prepared to tackle it, asks a Mumbai-based NGO's latest publication

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If an alarm clock were set to ring every time the word 'troll' or 'social media' were used in daily conversation, it would get tired of ringing. Largely invisible in our daily discourse are those narratives that do not revolve around a smartphone — and if you didn't know already, three out of every four mobile phone users in India do not use smartphones.

Free to be Mobile, a publication released by Mumbai-based non-profit organisation Point of View (POV), brings to light many of these stories by presenting 10 accounts, of teenagers, women, trans and queer people on technology-enabled violence, ranging from incessant phone calls from unknown men to fathers tracking their daughter's phone bills. For instance, at a digital security workshop held in Madla, West Bengal, the women, aged between 18 and 24, were asked what they wanted to discuss.

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