Data
The definitive buzzword of the internet age, ‘data’ comes with much baggage. Laws and regulation reckoning with data are being crafted first and foremost to ensure data protection. However, much more is at stake when it comes to data: governance by data raises questions of discrimination; mass surveillance by the State is fundamentally altering democracy; ‘data-driven’ decision making has been revealed to flatten cultural eccentricities and diversity. Moreover, while data is generally conceptualised and treated as a disembodied resource, in practice it has strongly embodied effects for our autonomy, dignity and even bodily integrity. We explore this range of issues in this section.
Posts & Publications
Strengthening the account aggregator ecosystem: A feminist perspective — A policy brief
Tech Tools to Facilitate and Manage Consent: Panacea or Predicament? A Feminist Perspective
Your health data is others’ wealth
Health Data as Wealth: Understanding Patient Rights in India within a Digital Ecosystem through a Feminist Approach
Safeguarding patient rights within a digital ecosystem through a feminist framework — A policy brief
Our work on bodies and data is featured on The Swaddle. Watch the videos and listen to the podcast here!
Virus detected: A profile of India’s emergent ecosystem of networked technologies to tackle Covid-19
Informed consent — Said who? A feminist perspective on principles of consent in the age of embodied data — A policy brief
What’s sex got to do with it? Mapping the impact of questions of gender and sexuality on the evolution of the digital rights landscape in India
Protecting bodies and rights in disease surveillance during COVID-19 in India — A policy brief
Informed consent – Said who? A feminist perspective on principles of consent in the age of embodied data
Deep Impact: COVID-19, surveillance technology and marginalised identities
Embodied surveillance during COVID-19 in India: A feminist perspective
An anniversary we are wary about
When our bodies become data, where does that leave us?
Thou shalt build NODEs in the air, but would that be fair? Our submission in response to the NODE White Paper
Call for Inputs: Surveillance and marginalised communities during COVID19
‘Best effort basis’: Is it indeed the best effort by the Government?
New Video: A feminist perspective on principles of consent in the age of embodied data – Draft paper presentation
When and where is Aarogya Setu mandatory? We’re keeping track
An exclusion tale: Aarogya Setu’s march from optional to mandatory
Statement against the mandatory imposition of Aarogya Setu App on workers
New video: Data is an extension of our bodies
National Coalition urges Government to comply with privacy principles during COVID-19
Our submission to the Joint Parliamentary Committee on the Personal Data Protection Bill 2019
Data sovereignty, of whom? Limits and suitability of sovereignty frameworks for data in India
Our new video explains how to trust on the Internet – by remixing already familiar proverbs
Translated videos: Kannada and Hindi translations of using Rangoli to understand internet infrastructure
The seduction of data sovereignty in India
DPIIT: Please institute a more transparent and consultative public engagement process on draft National E‑Commerce Policy
Submission in response to the draft e‑commerce policy
Online Gods Podcast, featuring our work on Gendering Surveillance
Internet Democracy Project joins global coalition that urges India to withdraw proposed amendments to Intermediary Guidelines
Draft amendments to Intermediary Guidelines Rules raise serious concern for freedom of expression and privacy
Deciphering the Aadhaar verdict
Call for papers: ‘Imagine a Feminist Internet: Research, Practice and Policy in South Asia’
Solving for data justice: A response to the draft Personal Data Protection Bill
Is the fourth way going far enough? Our submission to MEITy on draft Personal Data Protection Bill 2018
Dots and connections – Internet explained through rangoli
India’s data protection draft ignores key next-generation rights
Here are the consequences of linking women’s medical records to their Aadhaar
Playing the Aadhaar card
Rangoli as a way to explore networks
Can ‘safety apps’ ever be useful? Interview with creators of ‘No’, an app that seeks to be different
Why the Supreme Court’s right to privacy judgement matters so much to marginalised people in India
Our work on gendering surveillance featured in NDTV documentary
Our new research on gender and surveillance in India launched, on a dedicated website!
We signed an open letter to the leaders of the world’s governments demanding #SecurityForAll
Open letter to Facebook about its ‘real name’ policy
We need a UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Privacy!
Letter from international civil society organisations to President Dilma Rousseff in support of her statement at the 68th Session of the UNGA
India’s Central Monitoring System: No getting away from the gaze of the State
Can security and human rights be reconciled?
Freedom Online Coalition: A Call to Governments from civil society
Civil society letter to US Congress on Internet and telecommunications surveillance
Civil society statement to the UN HRC on the impact of state surveillance on human rights globally, addressing the US PRISM program
Global coalition of NGOs calls to investigate and disable FinFisher’s espionage equipment in Pakistan
Quotable Quotes from #SAFoE
Moving forward in fighting online hate speech and excessive surveillance: Suggestions and solutions from #SAFoE
Cyber security, surveillance and anonymity: The debate at #SAFoE
Cyber security, surveillance and the right to privacy: Country perspectives – #SAFoE
Negotiating cyber security, surveillance and hate speech: Keynote speech by Prof. KS Park – #SAFoE