White Paper: Privacy from Below

This white paper explores the evolving meaning and practice of online privacy at a time when data extraction structures both corporate power and state governance. Moving beyond narrow legal and technical framings, it foregrounds the role of civil society actors, grassroots movements, and creative computing communities in reimagining privacy as a collective and political concern. Through case studies spanning litigation, advocacy, librehosting, privacy-enhancing technologies, and experimental approaches to Artificial Intelligence (AI), the paper demonstrates how bottom-up initiatives open new conceptual and practical horizons for digital rights.

The white paper was authored by Jernej Kaluža, Regina Seiwald, Ivo Furman, Carlos Cunha, Sašo Josimovski, Lidija Pulevska, Marya Šupa, Nasir Muftić, and Sandra Becker.