Instead of thinking of it normatively, the locus of analysis should be on the social context, who is making the demand to whom, and the political context for which specific information is deemed to be missing. [...] In this sense, the definition of missing data proposed here explicitly includes a political demand, because the group making the demand for information is trying to charge another group or institution with the responsibility for the absence of this data. [...] In a 1980 public petition, these groups demanded that the military government “publish the list of the detained-dis- appeared, where they are and the reason for their detention.”4 Although the country was still under a dictatorship, the document had more than 12,000 signatures, and members of the media counted about 500 people protesting on the day the organizations delivered the document to the m. [...] Thanks to the group, it is now possible to compare the number of killings with other countries’ data and find evidence at scale for how the Brazilian police force is one of the most lethal in the world.17 Yet the clarity offered by such a dataset on police killings in Brazil still cannot account for the full extent of state violence. [...] In other cases, however, minoritized groups may need to actively produce missing data in order to protect themselves from the purview of the state, especially if those datasets could be weaponized in the context of a more extensive configuration of unequal power.47 Final Notes 45 Stephanie Russo Carrol, Marisa Duarte, and Max Liboiron, “Indigenous Data Sovereignty,” in Keywords of the Datafied Sta.
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