We are a collaborative network-building effort to address the impacts of data-driven policing on racialised communities throughout Europe.
We create spaces of convening to exchange visions and strategies of organising. Centering the needs and experiences of racialised and marginalised communities, our aim is to expose and confront the harms of new forms of policing, surveillance and control on the ground.
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Tracked and Targeted: A Word About Our Participatory Methodology
Consistent with our past research, the study presented in Tracked and Targeted: Navigating Worker Surveillance at Amazon is a participatory action research study. This means we focus deeply on individuals’ and groups’ lived experiences as the basis from which we can know and understand the world. This type of research design deeply emphasizes reciprocity and…
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Surveillance, Policing and Punishment in Low-Wage Work at Amazon
Our Data Bodies’ interim findings on surveillance of low-wage workers at Amazon are now published! Tracked and Targeted: Navigating Worker Surveillance at Amazon features insights and stories based on an initial analysis of 21 interviews we conducted with current and former workers. Our qualitative, participatory studyDetails on our participatory methodology can be found here: https://www.odbproject.org/2023/11/15/odb-at-work-methodology/.…
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Our Data Bodies and Open Secrets went to RightsCon 2023!
Earlier this year, Our Data Bodies attended the RightsCon Conference that took place in San José, Costa Rica. It was a complicated affair that came with great connections, but incredible disappointment in the conference’s handling of the realities of racism, colorism, imperial borders, and government negotiations. Overall, it was a complicated, connective time. Our Data…
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Our Data Bodies and Open Secrets hosted a knowledge sharing workshop !
This past month, Our Data Bodies co-hosted a Technology, Discrimination, and Exclusion workshop with Cape Town-based civil society organization, Open Secrets. The workshop focused on knowledge generation around specific issues of data collection, collusion between private and government sectors, and ideas of ethical data usage in South Africa. The workshop took place at Community House in…
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AMC 2022 Preview: A Look into the Abolish Carceral Tech Track
ODB member Seeta Peña Gangadharan worked with Sanne Stevens, Co-Director of the Justice, Equity, and Technology Table, and Safia Oulmane, member of the Justice, Equity, and Technology Table to co-organize the Abolish Carceral Tech track at the Allied Media Projects Conference this year. In this post, we preview interviews conducted by Safia with a sample…
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Ziyanda Stuurman : The colonial origins and mandates of policing in South Africa, the private security market, and abolition (Part 2 of 2)
Photo Credit: New Frame News Part two of this interview is below, to read part one, click here: Kim M Reynolds: You kind of you detail the industry of private security, which is really interesting for me as well, something that I’ve been kind of thinking about deeply and particularly the ways that private security…