‘It was so terrifying’: one woman’s experience of ‘tech abuse’

Amy Aldworth went on a date with a banker she met through an app and she thought it had gone well after both agreed to meet again. But before the second date happened, she received an unusual message from the man, whom she has asked the Guardian not to name, insinuating she had given him a sexually transmitted disease.

Confident she had recently been tested, she attempted to reassure him and thought that would be the end of it. But the messages kept coming – and the tone became more aggressive and confrontational.

Amy, 26, who lives in London and works in an NHS pharmacy department, said: “It escalated to him not feeling very well to him knowing I’ve given him HIV. ‘I have the symptoms of HIV, you need to get tested.’ I was getting these for weeks.”

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