Digital defense playbook: Community power tools for reclaiming data
Seeta Peña Gangadharan, Tawana Petty, Tamika Lewis, Mariella Saba · London School of Economics and Political Science Research Online (London School of Economics and Political Science) · 2018
ODB is a collaborative, participatory research and organizing effort.Since 2015, we have been working in three cities: Charlotte, North Carolina; Detroit, Michigan; and Los Angeles California.Our project combines community-based organizing, capacity-building, and rigorous academic research in order to find answers to three main questions:• How do marginalized adults experience and make sense of the collection, storage, sharing and analysis of their personal information?• How, if at all, do marginalized adults connect their ability to meet their basic material and social needs to their inclusion in (or exclusion from) data-based systems?• What strategies do marginalized adults deploy, if any, to protect their digital privacy, self-determination, and data rights?ODB was born from previous research and organizing in and around data profiling, datadriven technologies, resistance to surveillance, and digital justice.We grew from a set of shared interests: we wanted to shift who gets to define problems around data collection, data privacy, and data security-from elites to impacted communities; shine a light on how communities have been confronting data-driven problems as well as how they wish to confront these problems; and forge an analysis of data and data-driven technologies from and with allied struggles.We value principles of digital justice, which were first developed by the Detroit Digital Justice Coalition in 2010. 1 These principles celebrate the creation of spaces where people can explore technologies' power to investigate, illuminate, and develop visionary solutions to community problems.