30 percent of people see their partner digitally watching their partner without their consent although for this they have to install spy software in one of their devices to control and track their movements, their photos, their messaging or their social networks.
More than half of the population (60 percent) is unknown, however, what these "spy" programs are -which the main technological giants have already eliminated their "stores" -, technically known as "Stalkerware", andThe possibilities that the person who installs it has to know a location, the activity on the Internet and even record conversations and video.
The data emerges from a study in charge of the multinational of the Kaspersky Cybersecurity sector and several NGOs when the second anniversary of the coalition against the Stalkerware, an initiative to which forty institutions, associations, companies and organizations notgovernment that work against sexist violence.
The study has been conducted in 21 countries in order to know the attitude towards privacy and digital harassment in relationships, and reveals that a vast majority (70 percent) consider this type of control unacceptable in any circumstance.
And those who approve it justify such harassment and control when they suspect their partner's loyalty, for security reasons or because they believe that their partner could be involved in a crime.
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8 percent of respondents also recognize that their partner has asked them to install some surveillance application, although that percentage rises to 34 percent in the case of people who have suffered some type of abuse from their partners.
The president of the Stop Digital Gender Violence Organization, Encarna Iglesias, said that facing the couple in such a situation "will only increase the risk facing a victim" of this type of harassment and violence, so she has advised againstThat confrontation.
In his opinion, it is necessary to work to train, educate and help people who suffer from this type of harassment by their partners, and security forces to know how to detect and combat such programs to avoid those situations.
The study commissioned by this company - member of the Coalition and the DESTALK project that the European Union has launched to combat cyberviolence - reveals the concern of many respondents to the possibility that their partner violates their digital privacy and access their messagesof text, to their social networks or their emails.
Their data suggest that Russia, Brazil and the United States are the countries in which a greater number of incidents of this type are recorded, and that in Europe that classification is headed by Germany, followed by Italy, the United Kingdom, France, Poland and Spain, although the countries where respondents were most permissive were India, Malaysia and China.