{"id":17390,"date":"2024-04-09T14:13:50","date_gmt":"2024-04-09T18:13:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fist\/?p=17390"},"modified":"2025-10-20T09:44:58","modified_gmt":"2025-10-20T13:44:58","slug":"ryan-conrads-new-publication-on-sex-work-and-data-privacy-in-queer-data-studies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fist\/2024\/ryan-conrads-new-publication-on-sex-work-and-data-privacy-in-queer-data-studies\/","title":{"rendered":"Ryan Conrad\u2019s New Publication on Sex Work and Data Privacy in Queer Data Studies"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n            <div class=\"cu-textmedia flex flex-col lg:flex-row mx-auto gap-6 md:gap-10 my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 max-w-5xl\">\n        <div class=\"justify-start cu-textmedia-content cu-prose-first-last\" style=\"flex: 0 0 100%;\">\n            <header class=\"font-light prose-xl cu-pageheader md:prose-2xl cu-component-updated cu-prose-first-last\">\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] pb-5 after:w-10 text-cu-black-700 not-prose\">\n                        Ryan Conrad\u2019s New Publication on Sex Work and Data Privacy in Queer Data Studies\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n<p><span data-sheets-root=\"1\" data-sheets-value=\"{&quot;1&quot;:2,&quot;2&quot;:&quot;We are pleased to announce the recent publication of a chapter in the new anthology Queer Data Studies by FIST Adjunct Research Faculty member Ryan Conrad. The chapter, titled \u201cGenerated Vulnerability: Male Sex Workers, Third-Party Platforms, and Data Security,\u201d is a timely contribution to the fields of sexuality studies, data studies, and science and technology studies. Conrad and anthology editor Patrick Keilty are planning a roundtable on queer data practices as part of the Sexuality Studies Association\u2019s annual meeting in June 2024 where they will discuss their contributions to this ground-breaking interdisciplinary publication.\\n\\nAbstract\\n\u201cGenerated Vulnerability\u201d reflects on the documented and possible further harms of the Rentboy.com data breach that resulted from computer seizures by the FBI and Homeland Security in their 2015 raid of Rentboy\u2019s offices. This chapter continues by investigating the strategies (or lack thereof) put in place by the owners of Rentmen.com to prevent similar data breaches as detailed in their data privacy and terms of service statements. Lastly, this chapter examines the data privacy strategies of online advertising platforms facilitated by sex worker-owned cooperatives like Ottawa Independent Companions (OIC) in order to contrast this hyper-local, democratic, collaborative, and demonstrably more secure data privacy model against faceless revenue-hungry transnational corporations making a killing off sex workers with little accountability to the very workers they claim to be supporting through their online advertising service.\\n\\nKey words: sex work, data privacy, third-party platforms, digital sex work, sextech, male sex work.\\n\\nConrad, Ryan. \u201cGenerated Vulnerability: Male Sex Workers, Third-Party Platforms, and Data Security.\u201d Essay. In Queer Data Studies, edited by Patrick Keilty. Seattle, WA: University of Washington Press, 2024. \\n&quot;}\" data-sheets-userformat=\"{&quot;2&quot;:961,&quot;3&quot;:{&quot;1&quot;:0},&quot;9&quot;:1,&quot;10&quot;:1,&quot;11&quot;:4,&quot;12&quot;:0}\">We are pleased to announce the recent publication of a chapter in the new anthology Queer Data Studies by FIST Adjunct Research Faculty member <a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fist\/people\/ryan-conrad\/\">Ryan Conrad<\/a>. The chapter, titled \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/uwapress.uw.edu\/book\/9780295751979\/queer-data-studies\/\">Generated Vulnerability: Male Sex Workers, Third-Party Platforms, and Data Security<\/a>,\u201d is a timely contribution to the fields of sexuality studies, data studies, and science and technology studies. Conrad and anthology editor Patrick Keilty are planning a roundtable on queer data practices as part of the Sexuality Studies Association\u2019s annual meeting in June 2024 where they will discuss their contributions to this ground-breaking interdisciplinary publication.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 id=\"abstract\" class=\"wp-block-heading\"><span data-sheets-root=\"1\" data-sheets-value=\"{&quot;1&quot;:2,&quot;2&quot;:&quot;We are pleased to announce the recent publication of a chapter in the new anthology Queer Data Studies by FIST Adjunct Research Faculty member Ryan Conrad. The chapter, titled \u201cGenerated Vulnerability: Male Sex Workers, Third-Party Platforms, and Data Security,\u201d is a timely contribution to the fields of sexuality studies, data studies, and science and technology studies. Conrad and anthology editor Patrick Keilty are planning a roundtable on queer data practices as part of the Sexuality Studies Association\u2019s annual meeting in June 2024 where they will discuss their contributions to this ground-breaking interdisciplinary publication.\\n\\nAbstract\\n\u201cGenerated Vulnerability\u201d reflects on the documented and possible further harms of the Rentboy.com data breach that resulted from computer seizures by the FBI and Homeland Security in their 2015 raid of Rentboy\u2019s offices. This chapter continues by investigating the strategies (or lack thereof) put in place by the owners of Rentmen.com to prevent similar data breaches as detailed in their data privacy and terms of service statements. Lastly, this chapter examines the data privacy strategies of online advertising platforms facilitated by sex worker-owned cooperatives like Ottawa Independent Companions (OIC) in order to contrast this hyper-local, democratic, collaborative, and demonstrably more secure data privacy model against faceless revenue-hungry transnational corporations making a killing off sex workers with little accountability to the very workers they claim to be supporting through their online advertising service.\\n\\nKey words: sex work, data privacy, third-party platforms, digital sex work, sextech, male sex work.\\n\\nConrad, Ryan. \u201cGenerated Vulnerability: Male Sex Workers, Third-Party Platforms, and Data Security.\u201d Essay. In Queer Data Studies, edited by Patrick Keilty. Seattle, WA: University of Washington Press, 2024. \\n&quot;}\" data-sheets-userformat=\"{&quot;2&quot;:961,&quot;3&quot;:{&quot;1&quot;:0},&quot;9&quot;:1,&quot;10&quot;:1,&quot;11&quot;:4,&quot;12&quot;:0}\"><br>\nAbstract<br>\n<\/span><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p><span data-sheets-root=\"1\" data-sheets-value=\"{&quot;1&quot;:2,&quot;2&quot;:&quot;We are pleased to announce the recent publication of a chapter in the new anthology Queer Data Studies by FIST Adjunct Research Faculty member Ryan Conrad. The chapter, titled \u201cGenerated Vulnerability: Male Sex Workers, Third-Party Platforms, and Data Security,\u201d is a timely contribution to the fields of sexuality studies, data studies, and science and technology studies. Conrad and anthology editor Patrick Keilty are planning a roundtable on queer data practices as part of the Sexuality Studies Association\u2019s annual meeting in June 2024 where they will discuss their contributions to this ground-breaking interdisciplinary publication.\\n\\nAbstract\\n\u201cGenerated Vulnerability\u201d reflects on the documented and possible further harms of the Rentboy.com data breach that resulted from computer seizures by the FBI and Homeland Security in their 2015 raid of Rentboy\u2019s offices. This chapter continues by investigating the strategies (or lack thereof) put in place by the owners of Rentmen.com to prevent similar data breaches as detailed in their data privacy and terms of service statements. Lastly, this chapter examines the data privacy strategies of online advertising platforms facilitated by sex worker-owned cooperatives like Ottawa Independent Companions (OIC) in order to contrast this hyper-local, democratic, collaborative, and demonstrably more secure data privacy model against faceless revenue-hungry transnational corporations making a killing off sex workers with little accountability to the very workers they claim to be supporting through their online advertising service.\\n\\nKey words: sex work, data privacy, third-party platforms, digital sex work, sextech, male sex work.\\n\\nConrad, Ryan. \u201cGenerated Vulnerability: Male Sex Workers, Third-Party Platforms, and Data Security.\u201d Essay. In Queer Data Studies, edited by Patrick Keilty. Seattle, WA: University of Washington Press, 2024. \\n&quot;}\" data-sheets-userformat=\"{&quot;2&quot;:961,&quot;3&quot;:{&quot;1&quot;:0},&quot;9&quot;:1,&quot;10&quot;:1,&quot;11&quot;:4,&quot;12&quot;:0}\">\u201cGenerated Vulnerability\u201d reflects on the documented and possible further harms of the Rentboy.com data breach that resulted from computer seizures by the FBI and Homeland Security in their 2015 raid of Rentboy\u2019s offices. This chapter continues by investigating the strategies (or lack thereof) put in place by the owners of Rentmen.com to prevent similar data breaches as detailed in their data privacy and terms of service statements. Lastly, this chapter examines the data privacy strategies of online advertising platforms facilitated by sex worker-owned cooperatives like Ottawa Independent Companions (OIC) in order to contrast this hyper-local, democratic, collaborative, and demonstrably more secure data privacy model against faceless revenue-hungry transnational corporations making a killing off sex workers with little accountability to the very workers they claim to be supporting through their online advertising service.<br>\n<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are pleased to announce the recent publication of a chapter in the new anthology Queer Data Studies by FIST Adjunct Research Faculty member Ryan Conrad. The chapter, titled \u201cGenerated Vulnerability: Male Sex Workers, Third-Party Platforms, and Data Security,\u201d is a timely contribution to the fields of sexuality studies, data studies, and science and technology [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1,79],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17390","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-publication"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17390","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17390"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17390\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17393,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17390\/revisions\/17393"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}