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Safety vs. Security: Are You Safe or Are You Secure?
By Tawana Petty ODB has created a series of “tip sheets” that provide context and background about privacy issues faced by members of historically marginalized groups. Safety vs. Security: Are You Safe or Are You Secure? is part of this series and will soon be published as part of our forthcoming Digital Defense Playbook: Community…
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E-Verify: Checking Up on the Checkers
By Kim M Reynolds and Seeta Peña Gangadharan ODB has created a series of “tip sheets” that provide context and background about privacy issues faced by members of historically marginalized groups. The idea for E-Verify: Checking Up on the Checkers originated from questions raised in our interviews with Angelinxs, Charlotteans, and Detroiters. What is E-Verify?…
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Dealing with Modern-Day Debtors’ Prisons
By Kim M Reynolds and Seeta Peña Gangadharan The ODB team has created a series of “tip sheets” that provide context and background about privacy issues faced by members of historically marginalized groups. The idea for Dealing with Modern-Day Debtors’ Prisons originated from questions raised in our interviews with Angelinxs, Charlotteans, and Detroiters. America’s early…
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Tips for Data Self-Defense
By Virginia Eubanks ODB has created a series of “tip sheets” that provide context and background about privacy issues faced by members of historically marginalized groups. Data Brokers and Opting Out is part of this series and will soon be published as part of our forthcoming Digital Defense Playbook: Community Power Tools for Reclaiming Data.…
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ODB Team Sows Seeds at Allied Media Conference 2017
Powerful. Grounding. Transformative. The Our Data Bodies Project attended the 19th annual Allied Media Conference in Detroit, Michigan, bringing the team’s unique insight and powerful methodologies to a diverse and enthusiastic community of teachers, technologists, activists, organizers, poets and artists. Team members Seeta Peña Gangadharan, Tamika Lewis, Tawana Petty and Mariella Saba held two workshops…