Privacy Matters, Influence Happens

Objective

• Explore data: what is it, how is it collected and stored, what can be inferred from it

• Learn about the “Influence Industry”

• Understand why risk is inherited, and get some tips to be more secure

• Reflect on our right to privacy

• Consider how data collection and tracking can create specific risks for women and

marginalised groups

• Learn more about privacy concerns around fertility and period-tracking apps

Content

The aim of the workshop is to highlight the ways in which data gains value, our rights to privacy

and the impact that data collection can have across our lives, particularly the lives of women.

Using Tactical Techs research on the ‘Influence Industry’, the use of personal data in political

campaigning, participants will gain an understanding of the journey that our data goes through

and how it impacts our political decision-making. Following, we will reflect on our right to privacy

both as a society and as individuals, honing in on how identity shapes the risks our data is

exposed to. To deep dive data risks, we will use the case study on fertility and menstrual apps

to highlight how users of these apps are profiled and valued based on their consumer

behaviours. The workshop will explore these topics of data, influence, risk and privacy, through

group interactions and case studies, offering resources and concrete steps along the way on

how to best protect ourselves and our communities.

Target Audience

Female students and graduates

For us, women are more diverse than a biological gender. We understand women to include all individuals who identify as female. The event management system currently only maps the binary gender system. If this causes problems for you, please contact us!

Qualification of the Instructor / Coach

This workshop will be led by Tactical Tech, a Berlin-based non-profit organisation that

empowers communities and individuals by inviting them to think about how technology

influences their lives and changes the world they live in.

This workshop will be facilitated by:

Cassie Cladis is a project coordinator with the Influence Industry Project, an intersection of

research, learning and exploration of the Influence Industry of professional digital political

campaigners, the data-driven tools in its arsenal and the global contexts where it operates.

Louise Hisayasu and Emma Neibig are project coordinators on The Glass Room, a public

intervention that aims to demystify technology through creative, thought-provoking, self-learning

exhibitions.