Category: Blog
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ODB at the 2019 Internet Freedom Festival in Valencia, Spain
Fresh off the launch of the Digital Defense Playbook: Community Power Tools for Reclaiming Data, Our Data Bodies presented Building Power Not Paranoia: Community-Based Data Defense, at the 5th annual Internet Freedom Festival in Valencia, Spain. This workshop galvanized the festival’s commitment to elevating the voices of marginalized people and connected ODB to an international…
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Launching the Digital Defense Playbook at the Digital Equity Lab in NYC
In March 2019, Our Data Bodies celebrated the publication of the Digital Defense Playbook, a popular education resource that captures ODB’s three-year journey in talking with residents in the most marginalized neighborhoods of Charlotte, Detroit, and Los Angeles. This pop-ed resource outlines ODB’s method of storytelling-as-research and centers the lives of those marginalized by factors…
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Our Data Bodies Playbook is Out!
More than three years in the making, the Digital Defense Playbook: Community Power Tools for Reclaiming Data introduces a set of tried-and-tested tools for diagnosing, dealing with, and healing the injustices of pervasive and punitive data collection and data-driven systems. The Playbook contains in-depth guidelines for facilitating Our Data Bodies (ODB) workshops and group activities,…
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ODB Interim Report in U.S. Congressional Record
Brandi Collins-Dexter, Senior Campaign Director at Color of Change, cited to Our Data Bodies in her testimony to the U.S. House Committee on Energy and Commerce. Our Interim Report was subsequently submitted to the Congressional record. Watch her testimony here.
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Credit Score, Credit Report: What’s It Got to Do with Me?
ODB has created a series of “tip sheets” that provide context and background about privacy issues faced by members of historically marginalized groups. Credit Score, Credit Report: What’s It Got to Do with Me? is part of this series and will soon be published as part of our forthcoming Digital Defense Playbook: Community Power Tools…
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Data Brokers and Opting Out
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. In the adaptation…
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Taxing the Marginalized: An Overview of Court, Prison, and Probation Fees
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 Taxing the Marginalized originated from questions raised in our interviews with Angelinxs, Charlotteans, and Detroiters. An increase in fees in US Courts There’s been an increase in court fees…
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Safety vs. Security: Are You Safe or Are You Secure?
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 Power Tools for…
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Power Not Paranoia: An Oral History
In November and December 2018, Seeta Peña Gangadharan, Kim M Reynolds, and Mariella Saba, ODB Project team members, reflected on Power Not Paranoia, a framework based in the idea of collective strength against the surveillance state. The framework was conceived through conversations and in the work of the Stop LAPD Spying Coalition. Organizers around the…
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E-Verify: Checking Up on the Checkers
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? E-Verify is an employment background check database implemented…