data and discrimination: the right to be counted
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THE RIGHT TO BE COUNTED
or the right to be left alone
by Zara Rahman @zararah
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SUMMARY
• Why count?
• Why not count?
• Middle ground: a census?
• Privatisation
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WHY COUNT?
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–Johnny Appleseed
“Type a quote here.”
INDIA-BANGLADESH BORDER
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http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2015/jun/01/the-counted-police-killings-us-database
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• notice patterns
• identify needs and gaps in service delivery
• accurate dissemination of public funds
• stronger advocacy
WHY COUNT?
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WHY NOT COUNT?
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INTERNMENT OF JAPANESE AMERICANS IN WWII
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ROHINGYA IN BANGLADESH
Source: VOAnews
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FORCED SEX WORKER REGISTRATION
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A CENSUS AS A BASELINE
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Map showing countries where the ethnicity or race of people was enumerated at least in one census since 1991
CC-BY-SA 3.0 - Yerevenci, Wikipedia
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CENSUS = HIGHLY SENSITIVE
so who do we trust to carry it out?
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LOCKHEED MARTIN• Aerospace and Defense
• Information Technology
• Space exploration
• Emerging Technologies
• 80% of its work for the US defence department
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- UK Office for National Statistics, "Data security and the US Patriot Act"
“it is a criminal offence to disclose personal census data and is punishable by a fine and/or up to two years in prison. All census data is owned by ONS
and all of the legal undertakings of confidentiality of personal census information will apply to both
ONS and any contractors.”
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LOCKHEED MARTIN - CENSUS ACTIVITIES
• US: 2000, 2010
• UK: 2001, 2011
• Canada: 2006, 2011
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PUBLIC PRIVATE PARTNERSHIPS
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G4S IN UK
• Passenger profiling at airports
• electronic monitoring of previous offenders
• domestic violence monitoring
• CCTV at train stations
• 8 children's homes
• police services support
• accommodation for asylum seekers
• pre-departure accommodation for people to be repatriated
• hospital catering services
• school catering services
• prisons
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What does this mean for us?
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CONCLUSION
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• Transparency
• Choice
• Trust
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TRANSPARENCY
• who is collecting it?
• who has access to it?
• who owns it?
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CHOICE
• is there an option to not be in the data?
• …and is this a real option?
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TRUST
• do we believe the other answers?
• might this change in the future?