My Data Rights – feminist resistance and resilience to data practices survey
In January 2021, the developer of a period and fertility-tracking app used by more than 100 million consumers settled Federal Trade Commission (USA) allegations that the company shared the health...
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Workshop: Accept or Decline the cookies? – Gender, Privacy and Data with African feminists
Date: Friday 18th of March 2022 (11:30 - 1PM CAT) https://www.youtube.com/embed/3XQ-d36-5tg My Data Rights (Africa) is carrying out research to establish what action can be taken by feminist activists to...
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What if the data worked for us instead of against us? – Imagining feminist resilience and resistance in datafied societies in the African context.
By Chenai Chair * The narrative around privacy and data protection, in particular from a gender and sexuality standpoint, is that of continued digital exclusion, inequality, dataveillance, privacy breaches, and...
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A feminist approach to assessing AI, privacy and data protection in South Africa
The replication of existing inequalities, development of new social injustices and unequal power dynamics impact the difference in experiences of AI and machine learning systems for marginalised groups. A feminist...
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