Do You Know Where Your Data Is?
Privacy. A Human Right.
Since the very beginning, our country has viewed privacy as a fundamental human right. How can any of us really be free if someone else can use our data to deny our personal choices, our bodily autonomy, or our personal safety?
Most of Us Don’t Know Where Our Data Is.
Why not?
Because even the best tech companies have been doing a very good job at not being transparent at all. Many of the apps we love tell us how much they believe in our right to data privacy yet make it difficult or almost impossible to opt out of having them track, take and sell our data.
$26,000,000,000
When we started WLDP, we didn’t even know how much of our data is bought and sold daily. In fact, “Data Trafficking” is a $26 billion industry rooted in the fine print you approve on websites, apps and medical forms. We believe this massive data pirating affects every part of our lives. WLDP stands with you to change that equation.
Today, your data is your identity, your unique digital footprint, just as your unique fingerprints can be used to physically identify you. But unlike your fingerprints, your digital footprint can be stolen from you.
The WLDP Data Privacy Bill of Rights.
We created a WLDP Data Privacy Bill of Rights, which reflects the very essence of what we believe and what we hope, with your support, to achieve for everyone.
WLDP Data Privacy Bill of Rights
It’s your data.
No one has the right to take it
Weaponize it
Sell it
See it
Period.
Our goal is to show you what’s really happening to your data and then give you the right tools so you can make your own decisions about who you want or don’t want to see, sell, or track your data. WLDP wants to work with you, to help you and guide you so you can learn how to better control and shield your private data.
The Women's League for Data Privacy is Born.
How did we get to the Women’s League for Data Privacy? After decades of not connecting, my best friend from 1st grade and I almost magically found each other again. We discovered that we were both devastated and angered after Roe V Wade was overturned. Which is why my friend decided to launch a startup to help women protect their health and personal data, and she asked me if I would help.
She had me at “hello.”
And since the summer of ’22, we’ve been doing just that.
We both had stories, our own or about other women who mattered to us, who had suffered, fallen dangerously ill, or even lost their lives before abortions were made legal. Again today, women are back in the same situation, tracked by their data, prosecuted, and callously put in life-threatening situations.
We decided that the most helpful thing we could do was to educate women on the way their personal data is being hijacked and exploited for financial and political gain and empower them with the tools they need to better shield their private information.
WLDP will call out who does it, how they do it, and show the steps to take to opt out.
WLDP calls it Data Gaslighting.
Companies use consumer research to find the best ways to make it hard to control your digital footprint.. For example, instead of letting you instantly opt out of the way you may have unknowingly “allowed” a company to use your data on their landing page, they will have a link to their privacy policy. If you decide to go there, you’ll usually find 60 mobile pages or over 1000 lines of legalese to scroll through!!
They are protecting themselves, not you.
Even if you actually read through all 60 pages of their privacy rules, you’ll find that at the end, if you want to opt out of any of the ways they take, track, or sell your data, you have to call and/or write multiple emails to various parts of their company to (maybe) make it happen. This is what makes me want to tear my hair out!
We recognize that at times, taking the steps to protect yourself, can be very frustrating. Which is exactly why WLDP wants to be your partner.
We are here for you.
We are here with you.
No one else has the right to control your body, your choices, or your most intimate, personal information.
You should have the final say.
It should be your choice whether or not you want to share, sell, or publish your data.
It’s part of you.
It's Just the Beginning.
Every week we will be collecting and sharing information on how to shield your data so that you will know the best data practices for yourself, and for everyone you care about.
Particularly for the young women and girls in your life.
The beginning of a new year is a great time to take stock of the precious data that has your private information, your medical information, educational records, your work history, and even any problems you may have encountered in your life.
When someone asks you Do you know where your data is? WLDP wants you to be able to say “Yes. It is right where I want it to be.”
