New report: Trans Digital Rights
Dear colleagues, We want to share with you our recently launched report, “Trans Digital Rights: Improving data visibility, privacy and belonging for gender-diverse communities.” Our research asks: If we could reimagine digital rights that center the needs of gender-diverse communities, what would they look like? The increasing attacks on trans rights are part of a coordinated global agenda, and responding to them will help us reflect on adjacent digital rights and data justice issues, from reproductive rights to freedom of expression. Gender-diverse individuals face specific challenges navigating digital spaces, but there is still a gap between trans and digital rights advocacy. With the widespread adoption of AI and ongoing threats to democracy, we need to reimagine how we protect trans people. With that in mind, we developed the Trans Digital Rights (TDR) framework, based on a transnational two-year research project that explores issues related to data collection, citizen-generated data, AI, and platform regulation. We propose policy and advocacy recommendations, hoping the TDR framework can be used, changed, adapted, critiqued, and built upon. You can download it here: https://doi.org/10.18130/m2zw-2g87 Thank you, J. *Jess Reia, Ph.D. (they/them)* Assistant Professor of Data Science Faculty co-lead, Digital Technology for Democracy Lab <https://karshinstitute.virginia.edu/digital-technology-democracy-lab>, University of Virginia reia@virginia.edu | https://datascience.virginia.edu/ Visiting Scholar, Institute for Global Public Policy <https://igpp.fudan.edu.cn/igppen/main.htm>, Fudan University 2024-2025 Non-Resident Fellow at the Center for Democracy & Technology <https://cdt.org/> <https://karshinstitute.virginia.edu/> New book: Urban Music Governance <https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/distributed/U/bo245009492.html>
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Jess Reia