Happy Father's Day to the heroes who sacrifice, provide, protect, and love without asking for recognition. Your strength, guidance, and care shape lives every day. Today, we celebrate and thank you. Happy Father's Day! 💙
Data Labelers Association.
@datalabelers.bsky.social
Advocate for fair treatment and recognition of data labelers. Passionate about AI, mental health support, and professional growth. Join me in empowering the invisible architects of AI!
Tomorrow at 8:00 AM on Radio 47, Michael Geoffrey Asia, Secretary General of the Data Labelers Association, shares his journey from AI data worker to advocate for digital workers' rights in Kenya. #StoryYangu #DataWorkers #AI #FutureOfWork
Beyond the Screen: Mental Health, Healing & Community Support Join data labelers, content moderators & digital workers for a day of wellness, healing, peer support, and community connection. 📅 13 June 2026 ⏰ 10 AM–4 PM 📍 Arboretum, Nairobi Register: forms.gle/RG34zCEoR9qC...
🇰🇪 Happy Madaraka Day! Today we honor our heroes and reflect on the future of work. As data labelers and content moderators power the digital economy, one question remains: Are we really free if digital workers still lack fair pay, protection, and recognition? #MadarakaDay
Happy Mother’s Day to the mothers powering the AI industry behind the scenes. 💜 Today, we celebrate your strength, resilience, and remind you that your mental health matters too. #MothersDay
➡️ Joan Kinyua on organizing data labelers at the frontier of digital work @datalabelers.bsky.social datasyn.substack.com/p/invisible-...
Invisible Hands, Visible Futures: The Rise of Africa’s Data Worker Movement in the Age of AI
Joan Kinyua
datasyn.substack.com
This #LabourDay, we honor the workers behind AI—often unseen, always essential. This year’s theme calls for stronger protections and worker-centered innovation. The cancellation of #RightsCon2026 under unclear circumstances is a setback for accountability and dialogue.
Im Bundestag wurde heute erstmals darüber gesprochen, wie die Bedingungen für Datenarbeiter:innen hinter KI verbessert werden können. Joan Kinyua von @datalabelers.bsky.social, Forscherin @milamiceli.bsky.social & @jkloiber.bsky.social von @superrrnetwork.bsky.social lieferten zahlreiche Vorschläge.
Outsourcing und Ausbeutung: „Es gibt keine KI ohne Datenarbeit“
Hinter dem Erfolg von Künstlicher Intelligenz und Sozialen Medien stecken ausgebeutete Arbeiter:innen. Bei einem Fachgespräch im Deutschen Bundestag wurde heute diskutiert, wie ihre Lage verbesser wer...
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'Today, the Bundestag discussed for the first time how to improve conditions for the data workers behind AI. Joan Kinyua from @datalabelers.bsky.social, researcher @milamiceli.bsky.social, and @jkloiber.bsky.social from @superrrnetwork.bsky.social provided numerous suggestions.'
netzpolitik.org@netzpolitik.org · 4mo agoIm Bundestag wurde heute erstmals darüber gesprochen, wie die Bedingungen für Datenarbeiter:innen hinter KI verbessert werden können. Joan Kinyua von @datalabelers.bsky.social, Forscherin @milamiceli.bsky.social & @jkloiber.bsky.social von @superrrnetwork.bsky.social lieferten zahlreiche Vorschläge.
Kenya’s courts are making it clear: Big Tech is not above the law. A judge has summoned Meta executives to answer for the treatment of content moderators — a major step toward accountability for data workers. Read more: www.capitalfm.co.ke/business/202...
FB-owner faces Court setback as Kenyan Judge summons executives
NAIROBI, Kenya, Apr 22 – The Employment and Labour Relations Court has ordered senior officials linked to Meta Platforms and its contractors to testify, Kenya breaking news | Kenya news today |
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Arbeiter:innen hinter KI werden immer noch ausgebeutet gemacht. Wir haben mit @joan1k.bsky.social gesprochen, die mit der @datalabelers.bsky.social für bessere Arbeitsbedingungen kämpft. Im Interview fragt sie auch nach der Verantwortung deutscher Autokonzerne, die Datenarbeit nach Kenia outsourcen.
Versteckte Kosten von KI: „Sie wissen, welche Schäden Künstliche Intelligenz verursacht“
Datenarbeiter:innen hinter KI werden ausgebeutet und unsichtbar gemacht. Joan Kinyua aus Kenia kämpft für Anerkennung und bessere Arbeitsbedingungen. Im Interview erklärt sie, warum sie nicht auf Gewe...
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“We see everything.” Workers reviewing footage used to train Meta Platforms’ AI smart glasses report seeing deeply private moments — bank details, conversations, even people naked in their homes. Who protects user privacy and the workers reviewing this data? www.svd.se/a/K8nrV4/met...
She Came Out of the Bathroom Naked, Employee Says
Bank details, sex and naked people who seem unaware they are being recorded. Behind Meta’s new smart glasses lies a hidden workforce, uneasy about peering into the most intimate parts of other people’...
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This #InternationalWomensDay we celebrate the women behind the AI revolution. 💜 Across Africa and beyond, women data labelers do the vital, often unseen work that trains the models shaping our digital world. Your work matters. #IWD2026 #WomenInAI #DataLabelers #DLA
Meta 'Pervert glasses' — trained by human data annotators who have to watch uncomfortable, deeply private video clips in 10-hour shifts @datalabelers.bsky.social So on top of perversity, "a robot facade for human slavery" (Evan Cofsky on LI)
She Came Out of the Bathroom Naked, Employee Says
Bank details, sex and naked people who seem unaware they are being recorded. Behind Meta’s new smart glasses lies a hidden workforce, uneasy about peering into the most intimate parts of other people’...
svd.se
Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 5mo agoMake it stick.
Behind every algorithm, who pays the price? Join Data Labelers Association Vice President @ephantuskanyugi.bsky.social Kanyugi who will be speaking at the Singapore Future AI Summit 2025 on October 7th.
A must read! Great investigation into the strategy of mass recruitment used by AI data work firms. (And featuring lots of great folks like @joan1k.bsky.social @ephantuskanyugi.bsky.social @datalabelers.bsky.social @casilli.bsky.social @adiod.bsky.social)
Marché Arends@marche.bsky.social · 11mo agoToday, the investigation my reporting partner Kathryn Cleary and I have been working on for over a year is finally out in Africa Uncensored! africauncensored.online/blog/2025/08...
Big news! The Data Labelers Association (DLA) now has a page on the Data Workers' Inquiry platform! 🔗 data-workers.org/DLA @dataworkersinquiry.bsky.social @adiod.bsky.social @milamiceli.bsky.social @krystalkauffman.bsky.social #DataLabelers #DigitalLabor
Organizing Across Borders, by Joan Kinyua
The Data Labelers Association is developing mutual support structures and fighting for better working conditions. This inquiry recounts our path to founding it and acknowledges our ongoing partnership...
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One year ago, on #LaborDay, we launched Data Workers' Inquiry. The process was messy and uncertain, but driven by the need to do research differently. I wrote a reflection on what this first year taught us: data-workers.org/about/how-to... Thanks for reading and for supporting this work.
Big news! The Data Labelers Association (DLA) now has a page on the Data Workers' Inquiry platform! 🔗 data-workers.org/DLA @dataworkersinquiry.bsky.social @adiod.bsky.social @milamiceli.bsky.social @krystalkauffman.bsky.social #DataLabelers #DigitalLabor
Organizing Across Borders, by Joan Kinyua
The Data Labelers Association is developing mutual support structures and fighting for better working conditions. This inquiry recounts our path to founding it and acknowledges our ongoing partnership...
data-workers.org
#rp25 hosts 60+ sessions on AI. Few discuss the worker involved. “Am I Not Human? Data workers behind our AI systems and social media platforms speak out” 🇰🇪Joan from @datalabelers.bsky.social 🇩🇪 Andreas TikTok Works Council Chair 🪑Chaired by Rim of @superrrnetwork.bsky.social #contentmoderation
➡️➡️ Am 22. Juli findet ab 18:00 Uhr das Online-Seminar "Nicht von Geisterhand" der @eaberlin.de statt. Es geht um KI und die Ausbeutung von Datenarbeiter:innen. u.a. mit @adiod.bsky.social & MdB @sonjalemke.dielinkebt.de & Mitgliedern der kürzlich gegründeten @datalabelers.bsky.social Association:
Nicht von Geisterhand – Evangelische Akademie zu Berlin
KI und die Ausbeutung von Datenarbeit im digitalen Kapitalismus
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🚨NEW INQUIRY! @joan1k.bsky.social from @datalabelers.bsky.social discusses beginnings, gratitude, and partnerships in this piece. @dataworkersinquiry.bsky.social is an active partner of the DLA, and we remain united in the fight for the rights of data workers worldwide! data-workers.org/DLA/
Organizing Across Borders, by Joan Kinyua
The Data Labelers Association is developing mutual support structures and fighting for better working conditions. This inquiry recounts our path to founding it and acknowledges our ongoing partnership...
data-workers.org
Excited to be introducing this latest Inquiry...head to the data workers inquiry website and check out this new inquiry by @joan1k.bsky.social of the @datalabelers.bsky.social
Milagros Miceli@milamiceli.bsky.social · last yr.🚨NEW INQUIRY! @joan1k.bsky.social from @datalabelers.bsky.social discusses beginnings, gratitude, and partnerships in this piece. @dataworkersinquiry.bsky.social is an active partner of the DLA, and we remain united in the fight for the rights of data workers worldwide! data-workers.org/DLA/
Exciting news! We’ve just launched “Organizing Across Borders” by Joan Kinyua - a data labeler, organizer, and president of the Data Labelers Association (DLA). In this inquiry, Joan reflects on the DLA’s formation and the cross-border solidarity that helped make it possible. data-workers.org/DLA/
Wilington Shitawa is a former data worker and quality analyst who has worked at Cloud Factory and Sama in Nairobi, Kenya. Drawing from his personal experiences and interviews with fellow workers Andrea, Derrick, and Edwin, he created the comic „Click Captives: The Unseen Struggle of Data Workers“.
Happy Mother's Day! To all the moms holding it down, pushing through unseen struggles, and showing up no matter what — thank you. You are the backbone of families, communities, and our world. Here’s to recognizing your sacrifices not just today, but every day. 💐 #MothersDay #ThankYouMoms
𝗙𝘂𝗻 𝗙𝗮𝗰𝘁: The first "data labeling" for AI can be traced back to the 1960s when researchers manually labeled images of faces to train early facial recognition systems, long before computers could even process images in color! #AI #Datalabeling #DataAnnotation
Kenya’s High Court has ordered Worldcoin to delete all biometric data collected in the country. A win for data privacy—but what does it mean for the rest of us working in the AI pipeline? #Worldcoin #DataPrivacy #DeleteMyData
Celebrating the hands behind AI this Labour Day in Kenya. Data labelers—the invisible architects—deserve fair pay, mental health support, and real recognition. Join the movement with the Data Labelers Association. #LabourDay #InvisibleArchitects #FairWorkAI
Shoutout to Mercy Mutemi for the big up on DLA! We truly appreciate the recognition and continued support in pushing for fair and dignified digital work. Let’s keep the momentum going! #DLA #FairWork #DigitalJustice #OnlineWorkMatters