YOUR DATA IS BEING TRACKED

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What we fight for

In Central Florida, automated systems are tracking your movements, scoring your behavior, and shaping your access to resources.

All of this is without your full knowledge and therefore your informed consent. It is time to know what's being collected, by whom, and what you can do about it.

how you can take action with us

You do not need to be a lawyer, a legislator, or a tech expert. You just need to show up.

Take our Survey

Our PTK Chi Epsilon team is measuring the extent of what Central Florida residents know about data collection and how it affects them. Your response is completely anonymous and directly helps our mission.

Take the Survey

Speak at a Meeting

Orange County Board of County Commissioners meets most first and third Tuesdays. Public comment is open to all. Sign up the morning of the meeting at the clerk's office or online at orangecountyfl.net.

Write to Sheriff J. Mina

Orange County Sheriff Mina is the official who decided to keep operating ALPR cameras after the state ordered them off highways. A written request for a public transparency report on ALPR data use, storage, and sharing is a documented civic act.

Contact State Rep.

Florida is currently debating ALPR regulation legislation. Your state representative needs to hear from constituents. Find your representative at myfloridahouse.gov and send a one-paragraph email asking them to support data retention limits.

  • “YOUR DATA TELLS A STORY ABOUT YOUR LIFE. WHO GAVE THEM PERMISSION TO READ IT?”

What is our Mission?

  • At Data Rights FL, our mission is to advocate for informed surveillance of citizens, ensuring that any monitoring deployed by public or private actors is transparent, proportional, and accountable; we champion policies and technologies that protect civil liberties while enabling legitimate security and administrative functions, insist on rigorous oversight and clear legal standards, and promote public awareness so communities can consent to, contest, and shape the systems that observe them.

  • A citizen’s right to consent to how their data is collected and shared is fundamental to individual autonomy, democratic accountability, and equitable power between people and institutions. Consent should be meaningful, informed, revocable, and enforceable — not buried in dense terms, presumed by silence, or reduced to a one-time checkbox.

    Core principles

    • Informed: Consent requires clear, accessible explanations of what data will be collected, why it is needed, how it will be used, with whom it will be shared, and for how long. Information must be presented in plain language and in formats accessible to people with different abilities and literacy levels.

    • Freely given: Consent must be given voluntarily, without coercion or undue pressure. Citizens should never be forced to surrender rights to privacy or data control as a condition of accessing essential public services, employment, housing, education, or health care.

    • Granular and specific: Individuals must be able to consent separately to distinct processing activities (for example, analytics, advertising, research, or third-party sharing). Blanket consent to unspecified future uses is not meaningful.

    • Time‑limited and renewable: Consent should have a clear duration and require renewal for continued or materially different uses. Long, indefinite retention tied to one-time consent undermines individual control.

    • Revocable and portable: Citizens must have an easy, effective way to withdraw consent and to obtain copies of the data held about them in usable formats. Withdrawal should halt further processing

  • At Data Rights FL, we advocate for security not surveillance. We push for policies and technologies that protect people and infrastructure while preserving privacy, civil liberties, and democratic accountability. Our approach prioritizes narrowly targeted, transparent security measures, robust oversight, data minimization, and meaningful consent. We oppose mass surveillance, unchecked data collection, and opaque use of biometric and location-tracking systems that concentrate power without proven safety benefits. By centering human rights and accountability, we work to ensure safety measures actually reduce harm without trading away the freedoms they should protect.

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