Or your Alexa blaring music in the middle of the night. Or finding hidden cameras placed in your home -- without your knowledge or consent.These are the sort of things abusive partners and exes can use to try to control their loved ones and if it's happening to you, you need to report it.
"It was awful, absolutely awful," said Aubrey, a Houston woman who spoke with News 6 sister station KPRC about her fiancé secretly watching her in her home. "Everywhere I went, everything I did, he could hear it. He could see it. It was awful."
Aubrey says after she and her fiancé moved in together, she discovered he had installed cameras throughout the house without her knowledge or consent. She said she discovered it by accident while using his cellphone...
"Every time we get an advance in technology, the bad guys seem to take advantage of it," Oviedo police Lt. Travis Cockcroft said.
So what are some things you can do to break free of an abuser's digital trap?
- Make sure you change your passwords on all of your accounts.
- Reset your Wi-Fi settings to something only you would know.
- Educate yourself about what your smart home devices can do.
- Reset privacy settings.
- Keep a journal of any peculiar activity with dates and times and description of what happened.
