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Title: What's trust got to do with it? Feminist insights on digital Security, Safety, Stability & Resilience Policy advocacy on digital Security, Safety, Stability & Resilience has to address both the need for protecting users’ human rights, especially women, LGBTIQA, and other marginalized or vulnerable communities, as well as growing concerns raised by internet rights groups in relation to online gender-based violence (GBV), censorship, misinformation, and online surveillance. These contradictions and complex challenges make relying on technology-based solutions naïve and unrealistic. Yet this is the approach taken by most companies that are managing social media platforms. The research findings by FIRN partners - POLLICY (Kenya, South Africa and Senegal), KRYSS (Malaysia), CIS (India), and CLAM (Brazil) - provide a shift in perspective to balance conversations that are often technology-driven, by centring the lived experiences and narratives of research participants from various Global South locations. The research findings show that while governments often express the aspiration and intention to prioritize digital privacy, security and safety for users, the policy outcomes adopted at the national and regional levels seem to remain as a "paper right,” rather than a tangible reality that can be materialized in systemic technological and regulatory infrastructures. This panel, crafted upon a diversity of conceptual frameworks, is an opportunity to focus and advocate for actionable policy, based on data-driven empirical findings.