“Visibilidade Sapatão nas Redes”, a report about hate speech and Lesbian Visibility on the Internet. Developed in partnership with researcher and lesbian activist Ivanilda Figueiredo, with support of Ford Foundation the research analyzes interviews of six lesbian activists in Brazil and questions the reach of legislation and practices of the private sector on content moderation.

“Más que Palabras”, a report about how each of the four Latin American countries - Argentina, Brazil, Costa Rica, and Panama - defines hate speech from a legal and social perspective. It was an initiative of the Asociación por los Derechos Civiles (ADC), which had the collaboration of Coding Rights and also the Instituto Panameño de Derecho y Nuevas Tecnologías - IPANDETEC and Sulá Batsú.

Country case-study: sexual and reproductive rights in Brazil: This report analyzes how digital technologies can help or threaten the exercise of reproductive rights in Brazil, with support from Privacy International, in partnership with Laura Alonso. Currently published in English, this report is part of a series of country studies on how data-exploitative tactics can obstruct access to abortion care and services, including India, Chile, Peru, among others.

“The Future is Transfeminist: from imagination to action", an article by Joana Varon, was published in the digital magazine Deep Dives and re-published at In Plainspeak, a digital magazine on sexuality in the Global South. Part 2 of this essay, “If you see a binary, it usually hides a hierarchy”, is an interview with co-author of Data+Feminism Catherine D’Ignazio.

Oracle for Transfeminist Technologies is a card deck used in workshops as a tool for speculative futures and technologies embedded with transfeminist values. The project is an initiative of Coding Rights and Sasha Costanza-Chock from MIT Co-design Studio and the Design Justice Network. In 2020, we gathered to play it at CtrlZ.AI Zine Fair; at the newly formed DATA + FEMINISM LAB (MIT); at the Allied Media Conference; and with Venezuelan women in the workshop “Oráculo de Tecnologías Transfeministas”, organized by the Goethe Institut. Moreover, the Oracle was part of the exhibition "they call themselves skaters, and the act of skateboarding they call skating". We have also launched the Oracle for sale at the Allied Media Store and the tool was sold out in a couple of days.

M.A.M.I is a museum from the future, set in 3021 to archive pieces of feminist resistance against different forms of gender based violence. The idea of the museum emerged in a workshop in Santiago de Chile, with a group of feminists artists and activists and support from Hivos. Currently, all the participants have joined the Matronato, running M.A.M.I as a collective project. In 2020, in preparations to launch it, we gathered with feminist artist Lucía Egaña for a series of creative workshops and sprints to curate the artworks and activism pieces assembled in the collection of the museum.

"From Devices to Bodies" is a series of short documentary films portraying conversations with women and gender non-conforming experts reflecting about privacy implications around technologies that use our bodies as data sources. Launched in November, with support from Heinrich Böll Stiftung Foundation, the 1st video is a debate on human rights implications of DNA data collected by companies and law enforcement.

[Ongoing Research] Facial Recognition in the Public Sector and Trans Gender bodies: in partnership with Privacy International, we have submitted a series of FOIA requests to understand aspects of implementation of facial recognition technologies by the public sector as a form of authenticating identity to access public services. In colaboration with researcher and trans activist Mariah Rafaela, we interviewed transgender activists to understad current challenges and victories to ensure their right to identity and map news challenges brought by facial recognition tech.

[Ongoing Research] AI LATAM: building a feminist framework to question A.I systems from the public sector - with support of APC, in partnership with Paz Peña, we mapped a series of AI projects being developed by the public sector to moderate access to public services. That was a first step of the research from FIRN - Feminist Internet Research Network, in which we are developing a feminist framework to question AI projects.

[Ongoing Research] AI and Consent, a peer-reviewed article for the special issue on Feminist Data Protection of the Internet Policy Review, a publication from Alexander Von Humbodt Institute for Internet and Society. As a result of this ongoing research we had the opportunity to share some thoughts at the AI Latin American Summit at MIT, in the panel “How can #AI be used for Promoting & Monitoring development in Latin America?”. And later on we got invited to participate in the Unesco private hearings for the consultation on AI and Ethics.

[Emerging themes] Technologies and the environment: Gradually, technologies and tech companies have entered the environmental debate. To talk about the overlaps of Surveillance Capitalism and e-agriculture we joined the ECOinspiração program, on the Midia Ninja Youtube channel, in a conversation about how, from health data to e-agriculture, big monopolistic corporations are gradually concentrating more power and control over data from our bodies and territories.

“Internet & Elections”: a guide developed in cooperation with Coalizão Direitos na Rede and in partnership with NGO Me Representa, focused on protecting digital rights during 2020 electoral campaigns in Brazil.

Tretaqui platform: initiative by a group of organisations (Coding Rights, Beta, Vote LGBT, Me Representa, Fundação Cidadania Inteligente, Rede Feminista de Juristas, Gênero e Número, Umunna, Instituto Alziras, Revista AzMinas, MariaLab, Mulheres Negras Decidem and InternetLab) for denouncing hate speech and other forms of political violence used as political marketing strategies. It was launched with the webinar "Political violence, misinformation and hate speech in the elections", with participation of Congresswoman Taliria Petrone and representatives from partner organizations.

“Implementation of Data protection legislation in Brazil: a case study of 4 companies”: report that investigates privacy policies of Amazon Prime Video, Ifood, Magalu's e-commerce and Social Miner vis a vis the Brazilian General Data Protection Legislation that was about to be enforced. It was launched in a webinar with privacy lawyers. It is the portuguese version of the country report that feed a bigger study by the Colombian NGO Dejusticia entitled “Festín de Datos”

Cadastro Base do Cidadão: the mega database: report written by researchers Kimberly Anastácio, Bruna Santos and Joana Varon, with support from the NGO Derechos Digitales, this study aims to understand the stage of implementation of Cadastro Base do Cidadão (CBC). This mega database was created by a Decree by the Brazilian president and presents several inconsistencies between the General Data Protection Law (LGPD). This report was launched in December, with a webinar with participation of Congresspeople Orlando Silva and Fernanda Melchionna, as well as researchers and journalists concerned with privacy and surveillance implications of such an initiative.

[DIRECT ADVOCACY] Implementation of the General Data Protection Legislation - LGPD: in Coordination with Coalizão Direitos na Rede, engagement with members of the Brazilian Congress to ensure: a) that the enforcement data of Brazilian Data Protection Law would remain to be on August 14, 2020; b) that the General Data Protection Authority - DPA is put in place with open channels with the DPA Council to be formed by member with technical knowledge and closely engaged with organized civil society.

“É ‘FAKE NEWS’!!! E a gente faz o quê?” article published by Joana Varon and Bruna Santos after Twitter removed content from the Brazilian president.

Participation in the expert meeting on ‘Misinformation, disinformation and human rights’, organized by The Carter Center, United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) and the Human Rights, Big Data and Technology Project of the University of Essex.

AL SUR working group on intermediary liability and disinformation

Continued engagement with Transfeminist Network for Digital Security Trainers for rapid responses to attacks, project proposals and for adapting methodologies and projects to the pandemic context

Safersisters #06/ Safermanas #06: launching of Safersisters #06 gif, addressing Zoom Bombing (English and Portuguese versions).

Podcast on doxxing and political harassment on the Internet by Batalhas Digitais