“Women are also feeling a little nervous, even when they have the information to use helpline numbers etc., because of course, the minute you use that number, it’s recorded on your phone; if that is not your own phone, then it gets recorded on a shared phone, which means the next user or whoever essentially has access to that number and can just call it back. People are scared of leaving a trace.”

“Sex workers usually have a separate SIM card for their professional use… They take out the SIM and hide it every evening… So you [sex workers] could live in a household where people know that you [they] are earning somehow, but people don’t quite know how you [they] are earning… And it’s never been revealed… The truth is that sex work is highly stigmatised… There is a fear of loss of business. Basically, they cannot function because of the lack of privacy… So, we are seeing these kinds of cases also where online/​offline privacy is criss-crossing with each other.”