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Everything you need to file accurately about the Centre's work — factsheet, logos, expert spokespeople, recent coverage, and a direct line to media. We respond within 24 hours; faster on active stories.

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An international research and frontline-practice centre tackling technology-facilitated abuse, modern slavery, and AI safety — based in Australia, working globally.

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The Digital Safeguard Centre, Nansen.io Digital Forensics, is an Australian-grounded international centre working at the intersection of digital safety, human rights and emerging technology. Its work spans four pillars: digital safety audits and the Joliro platform for survivors of technology-facilitated abuse; modern-slavery and supply-chain detection; AI for social good; and academic research published with the University of Canberra. The Centre is a 2024 AIIA iAwards National Winner and a 2025 Prime Minister's Prize for Science finalist.

Founded2020 · Australia
FoundersRose MacDonald & Andrew Collins
LocationsSydney · Melbourne · Canberra · Services delivered online nationally and internationally
ReachAustralia, NZ, UK; international advisory engagements
Audits to date1,000+ digital safety assessments
Joliro languages21
Research partnersUniversity of Canberra
Industry PhDRound 6 · Australian Government National Industry PhD Program
Recent recognition2024 AIIA iAwards National Winner · 2025 PM's Prize for Science (finalist)
Expert spokespeople

Who to quote, and on what.

Our spokespeople are available for interview on technology-facilitated abuse, AI safety, modern slavery, and digital forensics. Topics noted; please specify outlet, deadline, and angle when booking.

Co-Founder

Rose MacDonald

Co-founder · The Digital Safeguard Centre

Founder of Australia's first digital-forensics service for survivors of technology-facilitated abuse. Former police officer. Speaker at the Tech Abuse Conference (London), CSW70 with UN Women (New York), and frontline DV peak bodies.

Topics: survivor experience · sector reform · trauma-informed practice · service design · stalkerware & spyware · cloud session compromise · LLMs & perpetrator capability · digital safety audits · AI safety.
Co-Founder

Andrew Collins

Co-founder · The Digital Safeguard Centre

Digital forensics practitioner. Co-author of the 2025 CAIS / ACIS panel paper on IS silence on TFDFA. Spoken at AusCERT and the Black Swan Summit (UWA).

Topics: survivor experience · sector reform · trauma-informed practice · service design · stalkerware & spyware · cloud session compromise · LLMs & perpetrator capability · digital safety audits · AI safety.
Academic partner

A/Prof Sultana Lubna Alam

University of Sydney · Centre research lead

Lead author of the Centre's research into 100+ Digital Safety Assessment reports. Expertise in IS, technology affordance theory, and gendered violence.

Topics: IS research agenda · technology affordances · academic perspective.
Academic partner

A/Prof Rosetta Romano

University of Canberra

Co-author of the Centre's scoping review on IS engagement with TFDFA. Specialisation in interdisciplinary review methodology and TFDFA terminology standards.

Topics: literature review · cross-disciplinary frameworks · terminology standards · indigenous learning · complex IS systems methodologies · data design.
Logos & visual identity

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The Digital Safeguard Centre logo mark The Digital Safeguard Centre By Nansen.io

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Recent coverage

Where the work has appeared.

A selection of media that's covered the Centre's work or quoted our spokespeople.

9 July 2026 · Mamamia
Featured coverage

"The law can't keep up with this invisible form of abuse. It's happening right inside our phones."

Part of Mamamia's coercive control series. Nicole Madigan reports on technology-facilitated abuse after separation, with Andrew Collins of the Centre on why the reality is rarely the hacking people imagine — alongside Prof Kate Fitz-Gibbon and A/Prof Matt Tyler (Monash University) and family violence lawyer Carmella Acciarito.

"Technology-facilitated abuse is present in the large majority of post-separation control matters we examine. It is rarely the hacking people imagine. It runs on ordinary consumer technology, shared accounts, Find My, vehicle apps and wearables, used as surveillance." Andrew Collins · The Digital Safeguard Centre

Read the article on Mamamia →

Oct 2024 · The Guardian

"Is your smartphone being tracked? Here's how to tell."

Long-form feature on stalkerware and covert apps in everyday devices, with quotes from Andrew Collins on detection methodology.

Feature · Women's Agenda

"It's insidious: the rise of technology-facilitated abuse."

Interview-led feature on the shape of TFA in Australia and what frontline services are seeing.

Podcast · Listnr / Crime Insiders

"Forensics: protecting victims of technology-facilitated abuse."

Long-form conversation on the forensic process behind a digital safety audit.

2025 · CAIS / ACIS Panel paper

"Lagging, Not Leading in Technology-Facilitated Domestic and Family Abuse."

Peer-reviewed panel paper. Co-authored by the Centre with the University of Sydney, University of Canberra, and Federation University. Read full paper →

Direct line

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We respond to media within 24 hours; faster on active stories. Phone interviews and video grabs available with notice.

Media enquiry 1800 NANSEN