Who is The Report’s Target? The call for a reimagining of these processes, from ideation to deployment, is not directed only to design teams in tech companies, but also to all who are involved in the process of building of these technologies: engineers, UX designers, policy leads, product managers, and others. Each player is key in how different parts of the product or tool are developed–each policy or code carries innumerable consequences of advantages, especially in a security or privacy context. Though some teams will be more involved than others, the broader issues and contexts should be provided to all aspects of the team. I, the author of this report, am not a developer, designer or engineer. I am a researcher, advocate and practitioner focusing on the tech-related harms and human rights abuses stemming from a lack of privacy, and security. I have seen first-hand the dangers and impacts of ill-conceived or under-researched technologies on marginalized communities as they scale to contexts they were not designed for. I have worked with many communities, including my own, for years to find safety nets, mitigation methods and I have pushed for corporate changes. This report is directed to technology builders from the vantage point that the security and privacy needs of the most marginalized user are missing in the design, development and deployments methods of our major technologies.
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Design From the Margins
