Our projects


VIOGÉN SYSTEM

VioGén is an algorithm that determines the level of risk faced by a victim of gender-based violence and establishes her protection measures in Spain. It is the largest risk assessment system in the world, with more than 3 million registered cases. Since 2018 Eticas has reached out to the Spanish Ministry several times and offered a confidential pro-bono internal audit of the VioGén system. While this suggestion was well received, no action was taken. In 2021, Eticas decided to make an external audit of this system.


BAD DATA

If data can be bad, can decisions based on data be good? This project seeks to de-mystify some of the common assumptions about how data works, showing that bad, BadData can have real-life consequences” sometimes trivial, others life-changing and inescapable.


BIG DATA AT THE BORDER

Enhanced security measures have turned airports into dense data ecosystems, and human mobility into a continuously monitored process. Digitalising travel and border crossing is having impacts that go way beyond practicalities. Could data be changing the nature of borders, our relation to our biometric bodies and our definition of identity and belonging?


SAFE ENVIRONMENTS

How is data used in schools? During 2017 and 2018 we explored how monitoring learning is impacting on teaching and privacy by looking at how surveillance technologies have been proliferating in education: from CCTV in bathrooms to Edtech.


UNIONS FACING THE TECHNOLOGICAL CHALLENGE

Digitization, automation and artificial intelligence are shaking up the world of work, and pointing to a future where labour may be different from what it is today. In this changing environment, since 2019 we have teamed up with trade union organisations to think collectively of these challenges and develop a technological agenda that incorporates privacy, digital labour rights and ethics standards into labour relations. In order to turn our research into practice, we have created an ever-evolving toolbox of resources that trade union representatives can use to raise their concerns about the use and impact of data intensive technologies at work.


¿QUIÉN DEFIENDE TUS DATOS?

For the last few years (2018, 2020) we have teamed up with the Electronic Frontier Foundation in the US and other counterparts in Latin America to encourage Internet companies to be on the side of their users in the defense of their privacy and in the promotion of their digital rights. We have designed a series of evaluation criteria that serve as a guide to evaluate and compare how companies treat your data and protect your rights, and rank them accordingly. These evaluation criteria are designed to go beyond what is strictly stipulated by law, as WE seek to promote best practices in defense of the privacy rights of users and customers.


RESPONSIBLE OPEN DATA

Data is everywhere. In the digital age, our data footprints include information on what we do, where we go, who we know, what we have, what we like or how we feel. We generate this information while we work, walk, interact, speak, protest or search online. The activities we engage in generate data in their turn, and all this information is useful to shape services, products and cities, for instance, and to promote transparency and accountability. We teamed up with the Open Data Institute in the UK to develop practical guidelines to help organizations anonymise the data they use, publish and share.


THE BARCELONA’S ICT ECOSYSTEM FROM A GENDER PERSPECTIVE

Women continue to be discriminated against in all areas and fields, but specifically in ICT. This study is a diagnosis of gender policies in ICT, where we analyze the ecosystem of information and communication technologies in Barcelona from a gender perspective to find out the causal relationships that give rise to and perpetuate the digital gender gap in the city. We evaluate and review the situation and current data from different sectors, from labour to education, but also cultural associations and public administration, to help policy-makers understand where are the gaps and opportunities to address gender discrimination.

Latest Blog Posts

Latest Blog Posts




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Gender inequalities in the platformization of domestic and care work

Algorithms, Gender, Labour

Gender inequalities in the platformization of domestic and care work

ETICAS Foundation analyzes the work of platforms of domestic and care work and conducts interviews with women who work in these platforms with the objective of giving more visibility to the situations of these women from their own testimonies, and denounce gender segregation in the labor market. With our research we want to shed light on […]


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