Community Norms, Rights, and Standards

IGDORE USA confirms the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and further defines and advocates for privacy rights in the age of digital surveillance, data sharing, and artificial intelligence.  

We declare and assert the right of all people to own, control, and allocate their personal digital assets, with full property protections under the law.  Personal digital assets include personally identifiable information, including images and selfies; original content shared on the Internet, including social media; medical and biometric data; extra-legal surveillance data;  and private correspondence sent via email, chat rooms, and other Internet communication.

We declare and assert the right of all people to move freely in public and private spaces without exposure to extra-legal surveillance, and where extra-legal surveillance (i.e., Ring cams, anti-theft cams, tracker tags, etc.) represents a practical and/or safety measure, we declare and assert the right of surveilled people to be forgotten.   This right requires surveillance tech developers and manufacturers to use data visitation services and apply Ethical-by-Design functionality on their products; it requires lawmakers to encode this right in process and substance; and it requires the user to respect the right to be forgotten in compliance with the law.

We advocate in the strongest terms for strict legal rules and punishments for the use of cell phones in sensitive and protected spaces, including locker rooms, bathrooms, places of worship, medical offices and hospitals, and other places where people have an expectation and human right to be nude, to be vulnerable, to recover, and to carry out activities that community standards of decency preclude the use of surveillance tools.

Despite our obligation to work within the open science framework of principles, we are still able to provide our community of practice with the strongest set of privacy protections, based on the Electronic Frontier Foundation's policy.

IGDORE USA does not sell or rent member, donor or website visitor information under any circumstances, and we do not share member, donor or visitor information without prior consent except as compelled by law. This restriction applies to members and donors both online and offline. 

We are located within the United States, and therefore will transfer, process, and store your information in the United States, which may not provide as much protection as your home country.