How the Biden Administration Can Tackle Social Media Regulation Without Chilling Free Speech
Rebecca MacKinnon wrote in Slate about how the Biden Administration can handle free speech on social media
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It’s Not Too Late to Save the Internet
Attempts to eliminate Chinese-owned apps TikTok and WeChat are an attack on internet sovereignty, writes Rebecca MacKinnon for Future Tense
Rebooting Internet Freedom
Commitment to a free and open global internet will need to start right here at home, writes Ranking Digital Rights’ Rebecca MacKinnon.
Ranking Digital Rights Releases its Winter 2020 Investor Update
Helps investors evaluate and compare tech & telecom companies on their respect for human rights.
Holding tech titans accountable amidst global uncertainty
Investor Update: Lessons From 2018’s Crash Course on Digital Rights
Our 2018 Investor Update reviews key developments of the past year and their relationship to the RDR Index findings and methodology.
What Mark Zuckerberg Didn’t Tell Congress
Facebook is one of the least transparent social media companies when it comes to personal data and privacy issues.
Facebook has been too casual about data for too long
One lesson is that transparency with the public about all policies affecting users’ rights to privacy & expression is essential.
We need to wake up to the existential threat surveillance capitalism poses to democracy
Privacy, and individual control over one’s data and content, must be baked into the design of the platforms & services people depend upon.
Facebook Scrutinized For Its Data Sharing With Cambridge Analytica
Rebecca MacKinnon was interviewed on NPR's Morning Edition about the misuse of Facebook data by third parties.
We are in a crisis over trust in government, business and online with no fix in sight
It is unacceptable for algorithms and scoring mechanisms to be opaque and unaccountable to scrutiny.