Social Justice in an Age of Datafication

The Data Justice Lab is a new space for research and collaboration at Cardiff University. We investigate the social justice implications of datafication. In this talk, I discuss a number of the Lab’s ongoing research projects and argue more attention needs to be paid to data harms so that we can learn from where things are going wrong. By attending to data harms and those trying to prevent them, we learn more about how our present systems of government oversight are limited, as well as the need for greater transparency, accountability and means for meaningful citizen intervention into changing data practices.