This bonus content is a reading from Platypus, the CASTAC Blog. The full post by Melissa Villa Nicholas can be read at https://blog.castac.org/2026/04/data-borders-three-years-later/. About the post: People often ask me these questions when I present my research on my book, Data Borders: How Silicon Valley is Building an Industry Around Immigrants (2023 UC Press), which examines the growing industry of data collection for the surveillance and control of immigrants in the United States. These questions arise in undergraduate and graduate classrooms, at academic conferences, and among public workers in the United States. I respond by advocating for policy protections for immigrant information rights, providing examples of data rights activism, and demonstrating how we are applying techno-imagined futures within my Southern California community to advocate for humane shifts in technological design and data collection.