From Literacy to Refusal

Dr. Seeta Peña Gangadharan delivers this closing keynote address, From Literacy to Refusal, for Libraries Stand for Privacy: National Forum for Privacy Literacy Standards and Competencies. In her address, Dr. Gangadharan surveys the history of 'old school' privacy literacy predicated on individual knowledge, competence, and action. She then introduces the agile turn in software development operations (DevOps) and its implications for 'new school' privacy literacy grounded in individual techno-disobedience and refusal, embedded within institutional collective action and exit strategies and the preservation of independence in computer and data sciences research and development.