Report: From Oppression to Liberation: Reclaiming the Right to Privacy

Privacy Inter­na­ti­o­nal just publis­hed a report study

Whose privacy are we figh­ting for when we say we defend the right to privacy? In this report we take a hard look at the right to privacy and its reality for women, trans and gender diverse people. We high­light how histo­ri­cally privacy has been appro­pri­a­ted by patri­ar­chal rule and systems of oppres­sion to keep women, trans and gender diverse people in the private sphere. 

For us, this report is also an oppor­tu­nity to show how survei­llance and data exploi­ta­tion are also uniquely affec­ting women, trans and gender diverse people. We demons­trate how patri­ar­chy and systems of oppres­sion rely on survei­llance to perpe­tu­ate them­sel­ves and how survei­llance and data exploi­ta­tion need the rigid and gender-norma­tive cate­go­ries of patri­ar­chy to func­tion. We conclude by presen­ting how protec­ting the right to privacy can address some of these challen­ges.

We hope this report will be read as a call for action: privacy needs to be reclai­med by women, trans and gender diverse people.

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