Sex workers face a lot of discrimination and censorship on the internet. Our data is also collected by various law enforcement agencies, nonprofit and for-profit organizations, and frequently used as target practice for the building of facial recognition technologies and surveillance A.I. 

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The ubiquitous anti-trafficking hysteria also conveniently and secretively enables policies, like the JVTA and FOSTA-SESTA to increase surveillance against all netizens. 

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For many years now, I've been writing about this issue, balancing a day job in tech as a software engineer with sex worker activism, building websites and applications for sex worker safety, while giving digital security trainings to sex workers and Chinese human rights activists. In 2015, I organized cryptocurrency trainings when major cc platforms withdrew from BP, and briefly created a tech startup called SafeLane while sex work was fully decriminalized in Canada.

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I trained and collaborated on digital security tools at Tactical Tech.

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I'm part of Hacking//Hustling, on the Board of Women of Sex Tech, and the Community Advisory Board of the Surveillance Technology Oversight Project.