[I]t’s like every time we need something as a community… if our community is a food desert, and we want grocery stores, what do we get? Policing. Surveillance. We need housing. We need places to live. And all this gentrification. What do we get? Policing and surveillance in some type of way is woven into…
And so that’s when I kind of decided to start to do a newsletter that focused on surveillance and anti-surveillance specifically. Because as somebody who is Black and Muslim, and so from two communities, or one community, you know, the intersections are from communities who are like hyper-surveilled and have surveillance as a constant reality—for…
When people were saying around, defunding the police, and that being couched within the overall vision of abolition, but just thinking about how so many resources are being put into death dealing institutions when, just like looking at the pandemic alone, alone, so many people are suffering, and don’t have like access to the things…
And so we see this, and then we have our period apps giving off information to companies like Facebook who send it to different companies and governments. [They] are able to use all this information without our consent to regulate our bodies, how much contraceptives we should have, etc. Instead of actually protecting us considering…
And the complexities then therefore with this work is to be able to draw those parallels and simplify them for people to understand, to say the fact that you can’t go to Tokai, for example, without somebody sitting in some control room, and watching your movement is the similar thing as having to have pass…
It’s encouraging to see increased attention to and understanding of the extractive dimensions of computation. I think for a lot of software-oriented researchers, talking about mineral supply chains feels like something that’s not their problem, or at least not related to the problems they face. But the ideologies of mineral extraction and data extraction are…
[O]ur message could have been co-opted multiple times by different people. We had to be clear that we are completely against biometric collecting software in residential properties anywhere in this city, not just here, and not just facial. Wwe have to figure out what’s the best way to describe this thing in every form. Because…
I find the privacy frame as an approach to only challenging intrusions by technology has also help put us in this position where we don’t have laws that actually grapple with the diversity of the people in our society and how technology affects them differently. —Rashida Richardson Our Data Bodies (ODB) is excited to present…