About
A private place to take stock of your digital safety
The Digital Safety Checkup for Women is a free educational resource created to help women better understand the technology woven into everyday life—and how that technology can sometimes expose our location, personal information, photographs, relationships, routines, or private lives.
From smartphones and social media to connected vehicles, smart homes, dating apps, shared accounts, artificial intelligence, and location tracking, technology has changed what personal safety looks like.
This resource gives women a private place to stop, look, and ask an important question:
Who—or what—has access to me?
The goal isn’t fear. It’s awareness. Know what’s exposed. Know what’s connected. Know what to secure.
Meet the creator
Ty Hollie-Love
Survivor. Advocate. Educator. Creator.
The Digital Safety Checkup for Women was created by Ty Hollie-Love, an author, mental health and human services professional, advocate, educator, entrepreneur, and survivor whose commitment to women’s safety is deeply personal.
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Ty’s understanding of safety did not begin in a classroom. It began when she was four years old.
At four, Ty survived being kidnapped. She would also survive familial abuse and violence—experiences that introduced her far too early to the realities of vulnerability, trust, power, and personal safety.
But her story did not end with what happened to her. Her experiences became part of a much larger commitment: helping women and girls recognize danger, understand their options, establish boundaries, access information, and make informed decisions about their own lives.
For decades, Ty has worked in the mental health and human services field, supporting individuals and families while developing programs centered around education, advocacy, empowerment, and human dignity. Her work has expanded into women’s advocacy, domestic and sexual violence education, youth education, publishing, digital resources, and community-based initiatives.
The Digital Safety Checkup for Women grew from a simple belief:
Women deserve access to safety information before they are in crisis—not only after something has happened.
Technology has created new ways for people to connect, but it has also created new opportunities for surveillance, stalking, impersonation, coercive control, location tracking, image-based abuse, sextortion, and exploitation.
Ty created this resource to help close that information gap. Not by telling women to live afraid. Not by blaming women for what someone else chooses to do. And not by pretending that checking the right boxes can guarantee anyone’s safety.
Instead, this resource asks women to become informed participants in their own digital lives.
Why this resource exists
- A phone can reveal where you sleep.
- A photograph can reveal where you were.
- A shared password can provide access long after a relationship ends.
- A vehicle can transmit location information.
- A forgotten account can remain connected.
- An intimate image can become a weapon.
- Artificial intelligence can imitate a face or voice.
And sometimes, the person accessing that information is someone a woman already knows and trusts. That is why digital safety deserves to be part of the larger conversation about women’s safety.
The Digital Safety Checkup provides education around phones, accounts, location sharing, online exposure, dating, smart-home technology, connected devices, intimate images, artificial intelligence, and technology-facilitated abuse—giving women areas they may want to review, in their own time and according to their individual circumstances.
Our philosophy
Knowledge is a form of self-care. Fear is not the method.
Women should not have to disappear from the internet, stop dating, abandon technology, avoid traveling, or organize their entire lives around the possibility that someone might harm them.
Safety education should expand women’s freedom—not restrict it. This resource therefore focuses on awareness, privacy, preparedness, options, and autonomy.
There is no judgment here. There are no scare tactics. There is simply information you can use.
Important notice
The Digital Safety Checkup for Women is an educational resource. It is not a diagnostic tool, emergency service, law-enforcement service, individualized safety plan, legal service, or replacement for professional domestic violence, stalking, sexual assault, or other victim-advocacy services.
Every person’s circumstances are different, particularly when abuse, stalking, surveillance, or coercive control may be involved. Technology changes can sometimes be noticed by another person with access to an account or device, so users should consider their individual circumstances before making changes.
Your safety. Your information. Your choices.
Know what’s exposed. Know what’s connected. Know what to secure.