From devices to bodies: DNA data collection
Channel: Coding Rights
Date: 2020-11-09

"From devices to bodies" is a short documentary web series with enlightening conversations that have the goal to set the grounds and amplify debates about the implementation of technologies that use data about our bodies in a way it can limit the transit or access of certain bodies across different territories.
The first video is about human rights challenges faced by the increasing collection of DNA information by both companies and law enforcement agencies Our video departs from edits of our panel “A tale on DNA”, organized at Rightscon 2020. On the occasion, Joana Varon and Mariana Tamari, from Coding Rights team, were joined by Jennifer Lynch, the Surveillance Litigation Director at the Electronic Frontier Foundation and Helen Wallace, Executive Director of GeneWatch, for a virtual chat about DNA data collection.