The following story, written by Priya Kumar, originally appeared in Slate’s Future Tense blog. When Was the Last Time You Read a Privacy Policy? Tech companies know that everyone skips the fine print. It’s time for them to change approaches. At one point last fall,
As we settle into the new year, RDR and its Index continue to make the news. Rebecca MacKinnon wrote an op-ed for CNN arguing that as technology companies face greater pressure to monitor and censor communication, we risk losing the ability to use such platforms
Since its release in early November, the Ranking Digital Rights inaugural Corporate Accountability Index has received worldwide media attention, demonstrating global interest in corporate respect for users’ rights. In coordination with the launch of the Index on November 3rd, The Guardian newspaper published two in-depth
At Tuesday’s launch event for the Ranking Digital Rights Corporate Accountability Index, project director Rebecca MacKinnon presented the Index’s findings and joined a panel discussion with Peter Micek, global policy and legal counsel at Access Now, and Ellery Biddle, director of Global Voices Advocacy. Moderating
Last week Ranking Digital Rights’ Allon Bar gave a presentation at re:publica, Europe’s largest conference on Internet and society. This year, 7,000 attendees gathered from around the world in Berlin to discuss Internet issues across such tracks as politics and society, business and innovation, media,
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