Although the digital age may have further deepened it, women in India and beyond have always been under stringent surveillance - whether by family, community or state. And this has shaped, and harmed, women’s lives in multiple ways.

At a time when the potentially far-reaching impact of growing digital surveillance of all kinds was not yet obvious to many people, Gendering Surveillance therefore sought to bring those harms closer to home by gendering digital surveillance, and to, then, ask: what do these insights imply for the fight for stronger human rights protections in the face of digital surveillance more broadly?

This research project was developed in close collaboration with my then-co-conspirator at the Internet Democracy Project, Nayantara Ranganathan. Check it out here.