- Linnet Taylor, Ouejdane Sabbah and Siddharth Peter De Souza
- April 25, 2022
What we did The concept of data governance exists in different forms, it has varied purposes and requires different institutions in order to work.…
What we did The concept of data governance exists in different forms, it has varied purposes and requires different institutions in order to work.…
At the Global Data Justice Project, we are studying how technology firms are using their digital infrastructures to enter into new domains and create new markets for their products and services.…
This essay is about a central and growing problem in AI governance: the gap between what people are experiencing from AI technologies, and regulatory and policy discussions about those technologies.…
The developments in the case dealing with Facebook tracking its users beyond the social network have reached another level.…
Digital traces left behind our internet use offer a detailed insight into our preferences and identity.…
Having perspective on the entire extractive logic of a system can be a rather bleak endeavor.…
When it comes to the governance and regulation of data markets and technologies, there are multiple regulatory regimes that can and do come into play.…
Even with increased surveillance of populations through use of new technologies, some panoptic features of surveillance remain.…
One of the central puzzles for our research on global data justice is what ‘global’ can mean when we talk about governing data technologies.…
Data brokers, businesses amassing and selling detailed profiles of individuals, can have a profound impact on our daily lives, without us even knowing of existence of such practices that fuel the personal data economy.…
Kenyans use social media to access news, express their opinions on national issues, have private conversations, and for marketing and business purposes.…
On 25 October 2018, members of the Global Data Justice team attended a workshop on data brokers held by Tech Solidarity NL, a grassroots community of Dutch tech workers that advocate for designing and developing a more responsible, just, and egalitarian technology.…
What follows is an account of the group privacy session at the Amsterdam Privacy Conference on October 8, 2018.…
Places and populations that were previously digitally invisible are now part of a ‘data revolution’ that is being hailed as a transformative tool for human and economic development. Yet this unprecedented expansion of the power to digitally monitor, sort, and intervene is not well connected to the idea of social justice, nor is there a clear concept of how broader access to the benefits of data technologies can be achieved without amplifying misrepresentation, discrimination, and power asymmetries.
We therefore need a new framework for data justice integrating data privacy, non-discrimination, and non-use of data technologies into the same framework as positive freedoms such as representation and access to data. This project will research the lived experience of data technologies in high- and low-income countries worldwide, seeking to understand people’s basic needs with regard to these technologies. We will also seek the perspectives of civil society organisations, technology companies, and policymakers.