This article focuses on Rohingya digital publics or users’ everyday use of digital platforms in Bangladesh’s refugee camps. The growing ubiquity of digital technologies and new data-centric possibilities redefined the practices and politics of humanitarianism in recent years. Vast amounts of data, generated from dispersed populations, altered humanitarian efforts in refugee settlements. Digital social media platforms and advanced technological innovation such as biometric smart cards and drones, widely used across refugee settlements by humanitarian actors, evoke rights-based critiques and foregrounds the security-versus-data safety dilemma. Marginalised, exiled refugee groups are positioned as data subjects in such critiques. Focusing on Rohingya digital content creators in Bangladesh-based camps, this article questions how exiled refugee digital users’ everyday use of platforms and negotiations with data-driven technologies relate to digital humanitarian efforts. The concept of digital homeland, as proposed in this article, calls for the reimagination of digital humanitarianism and data justice through digital affective practices. © 2025 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group.