Data Safety Alliance helps ride-hailing workers, AI data annotators, and content moderators understand what data companies collect about them, access that information, and use it to challenge unfair decisions and build collective power.
Platform workers are increasingly both the workforce and the dataset.
Platforms continuously harvest workers' real-time location, customer ratings, earnings metrics, driving patterns, facial-verification images, and account activity.
Extraction becomes deeply personal. Workers are routinely required to submit facial scans, voice recordings, photographs of their homes, and even images involving family members to train AI models.
These workers are not only producing and moderating data. Their bodies, identities, homes, and families can also become part of the datasets being collected.
DSA helps platform workers move from understanding how their data is used to accessing it and acting on what it reveals.
Know what data is being collected
Workers learn what personal and workplace data platforms may collect, how it can shape their work, and what rights they may have.
Request the information held about you
DSA helps workers understand and navigate data-access requests so they can see the information platforms use to evaluate, manage, or make decisions about them.
Turn individual records into shared evidence
With workers' consent and appropriate safeguards, patterns across individual experiences can support organizing, advocacy, research, and challenges to unfair platform practices.
"Individual data access can reveal a personal injustice. Collective evidence can reveal a system."
Data Safety Alliance is currently piloting its approach with platform workers in Nairobi. Through community-based training, we are helping workers understand what data companies may collect about them, how that information can shape their working conditions, and what rights they can use to question these practices.
We are still at an early stage. Our immediate goal is to test the model responsibly, learn directly from workers, and build the safeguards and partnerships needed for long-term impact.
Platform workers reached through early data-rights training.
Currently guiding platform workers through submitting Subject Access Requests (SARs) to reclaim their personal data.
Our current pilot location.
Training and program development are informed by workers' questions, experiences, and priorities.
Our pilot is helping us understand:
"As gig workers, we often feel powerless against big platforms. This training showed me that my data has value—and more importantly, that I have legal rights to protect it."
"I used to do facial recognition tasks for quick cash, completely unaware it was a privacy violation. DSA opened my eyes to my rights and taught me where to draw the line."
"Before my training, I didn't know where to go to request my data from Uber. Came to realize it was a simple task! Now I can request my data anytime"
"Working for an outsourcing company is never easy when it comes to accessing one's data, but DSA has been a game changer for me! They took me through the process of filing my Subject Access Request and I got some of my data."
Names may be limited to protect workers' privacy.
"We are not scaling an assumed solution. We are building and testing the model with workers first."
"From moderator to advocate, the path between digital labour and data rights is not abstract. It's lived."
Data Safety Alliance was founded by James 'Mojez' Oyange, a former AI data annotator for Appen and former TikTok content moderator and now a Certified Data Protection Officer.
James established DSA to help platform workers understand, access, and challenge the data systems shaping their work and livelihoods, drawing from his firsthand experience of digital labour and data extraction. DSA currently works with community organisers to deliver worker data-rights training in Nairobi.
Founder-led, Kenya-rooted, and developed with community organisers and platform workers.