Anja Kovacs
@anjakovacs
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Feminism. Tech. Social Justice. Researcher & Consultant. Founder & former director @iNetDemocracy, https://t.co/T0FJFaRjQQ. 2019 CyberBRICS Fellow @FGV. Dr.
Port Louis/Delhi/Rio
Joined August 2009
New research: for women, & gender & sexual minorities, #privacy has often been subordinating rather than equalising - a duty or responsibility rather than a right. With #datafication, I argue, that impoverished notion of privacy is now extended to everyone https://t.co/ZrLjgDzldE
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Today, The PDRC sent letters to Meta, X, Telegram, & TikTok regarding the proliferation of hate speech, dehumanization, & incitement to violence & genocide against the Palestinian people on their platforms. To read full press release and view letters: https://t.co/FSvzHAcWVW
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The shrines of the saints of Delhi. Some day even the djinns of the city will be rendered homeless.
The grave of Baba Haji Rozbih — believed to be one of the first #Sufi saints in #Delhi — was demolished by DDA a week ago. Located inside Sanjay Van, DDA called it an encroachment. Historians including @iamrana question how a 12th century shrine can be an encroachment today.
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It’s a marvelous way to start your Monday as Tracy Chapman’s original “Fast Car” is now #1 on iTunes for the FIRST TIME since she released it a~36 yrs ago. *I highly recommend buying or downloading the entire album. It’s magic. #GRAMMYs #TracyChapman
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Has anyone here used transcription software for Hindi? Which one would you recommend? #transcription #Hindi
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Israel is targeting Hamas? "More than 40% of the dead in Gaza after nearly four weeks of war were children, the UN said, with 3,900 reported child victims, and another 1,250 missing and presumed buried under bombed buildings."
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Israeli bombs hit school being used as a shelter while warning comes that children form 40% of fatalities
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That is 815 million Indian people whose data is leaked... About half of the entire population. #datagovernance #india
Seriously, what Digital Public Infrastructure is being built in India? How can we possibly offer a model for the democratic world? Yesterday personal data (Aadhaar, passport details, names, phone numbers, addresses) of 81.5 cr Indians was leaked by ICMR. Later at night Apple
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Marc Lamont Hill puts every interviewer to shame by forcing Israels former Foreign Minister to admit that Israel is deliberately starving and bombing a captive civilian population to get what they want. A War Crime. Not one British journalist has done this
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Highly recommended for anyone not so familiar with the issues yet.
My book, Machine Readable Me: The Hidden Ways Tech Shapes Our Identities, is out in 3 weeks! It's an accessible intro to how data about who we are is used by governments and others to shape the paths available to us in life. 1/
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Chalo will do some of the work for you. A tentative list of Bahujan scholars' work on caste census, and questions of rethinking minority and majority in India:
Reminder for media portals who'll start commissioning opeds and taking quotes on Bihar census. Go to scholars from marginalised communities- a lot of people have been writing on this for a while. Not the UC person who was schooled on caste 3 yrs ago by Twitter Ambedkarites
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The Bihar #CasteCensus results 🔹Backward Castes: 27.12% 🔹Most Backward Castes: 36.01% 🔹Scheduled Castes: 19.65% 🔹Scheduled Tribes: 1.68% 🔹Upper Castes: 15.52% These stark numbers are India's reality--but EVERYWHERE the discourse around reservation had been hijacked by
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This piece is a reminder of how the Brahmin-Savarna (NGOised) quest for "saving the world" is an elaborate theatre of "seeming like the oppressed". Used to obfuscate the work of debrahminisation required to be done in the intimate spaces and everyday lives of Brahmins- Savarnas
My last piece for @TheSwaddle series- "Saving the World like a Savarna". I try to unpack Savarna saviorism, the inherent intellectual dishonesty & rabid petty backlash when called out. Do read 🙏🏽 Jai Bhim https://t.co/R3ORwcsBao
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@internetfreedom has re-created the #SaveTheInternet website. You can send a template response to TRAI if you agree with the concerns.
#netneutrality Hello internet freedom fighters⚠️@TRAI is wondering whether “OTT” space should be policed — & your telecom service providers (TSPs) believe IT SHOULD❗ It is time to fight back, and #SaveTheInternet again. Here's how you can help 1/6👇🏽 https://t.co/6XKGUpSBf9
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The tone of the consultation paper makes it sound like #NetNeutrality is not being debated, but then the comments poured in, and TRAI—per process—put them up for counter-comments. What telcos want may astonish you – or not.
It's 2023 and I'm not sure if anyone cares for #netneutrality in India anymore, but Jio, Vi and Airtel are coming for it. Don't take my word for it. Here are excerpts from their submissions to @TRAI (uploaded last night) :
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This July TRAI opened another consultation on regulation of the internet, using the telco-speak term “Over The Top” aka “OTT”, which makes it sound obscure while masking that it refers to the entire internet.
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You may remember #SaveTheInternet in 2015-16, when we asked @TRAI for #NetNeutrality and got it, ushering in an era of cheap mobile data and the vast majority of India coming online. Good things don't last if we take them for granted, so here we go again…
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"A fear for a breakdown of social surveillance is at the heart of mobile phone bans for young women." Research by @iNetDemocracy examines the ban on young women’s use of mobile phones in parts of #India. @anjakovacs #GenderingSurveillance 4/4 Read: https://t.co/STTHpRpj6x
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"Facial recognition software threatens to further normalise the criminalisation of sex workers, #trans people and other groups who are always already under #surveillance." @anjakovacs writes for @deep_dives (@povmumbai) #GenderingSurveillance 3/4 https://t.co/zVnhYYoV3w
deepdives.in
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"If you haven't done anything wrong, you have nothing to hide." This is a #surveillance myth that tries to bypass our #RightToPrivacy! We cannot talk about #GenderingSurveillance without acknowledging the effects of #digitalisation and #Covid19 ⬇️ 2/4 https://t.co/j0SmEZna7C
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By Kaagni Harekal, Meera Devi & Khabar Lahariya Bureau This essay is the culmination of a special collaboration between Khabar Lahariya and the Internet Democracy Project, that aimed to bring ground...
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Women and sexual + gender minorities are only too aware of #surveillance aims: They have always been subjected to it - from partners and parents to the state - this has shaped & harmed their lives in multiple ways. Dive into #GenderingSurveillance with us this week ⬇️ 1/4
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