Tag: Power Not Paranoia
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Social Media Monitoring and US Visas
As of May 31st of 2019, a new policy was implemented by the State Department requiring all visa applicants to the U.S. to submit five years of all social media history. While there has been long standing surveillance of online activity by the U.S. government, this move signals that the surveillance is now explicitly a…
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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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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…