By Kim M Reynolds and Seeta Peña Gangadharan 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...
By Kim M Reynolds and Seeta Peña Gangadharan 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....
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...
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. ...
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. Credit Score, Credit Report: What's It Got to Do with Me? is part of this...
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. Data Brokers and Opting Out is part of this series and will soon be published...
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 Taxing the Marginalized originated from questions raised in our interviews with Angelinxs,...
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...
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...
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...
