Data can be helpful in implementing better quality projects, however it can come with some dark unintended consequences like enabling digital surveillance, creating new or increasing vulnerabilities, and doing harm. This podcast explores the issue of digital surveillance, how our current global laws do not protect against demographically/community identifiable information, and how going digital often results in aid being traded for data. The combination of these three often leads to greater vulnerability. The episode also touches on how some aspects of digital literacy and rights can help combat these unintended consequences.