Veszna Wessenauer is the Program Manager with RDR, mainly responsible for planning and managing the research and production of the RDR Corporate Accountability Index. She believes that the internet today has the potential to support just digital futures where technology serves the democratic needs of the public but there is a lot to be done to realize that potential. She holds an MA in Human Rights from Central European University. Prior to joining RDR, she worked with several Hungarian and international NGOs, including Political Capital, Democracy Reporting International, EU-Russia Civil Society Forum. a Hungarian think tank focused on democracy and rule of law in Central Europe. She was a recipient of Open Society Foundation’s Think Tank Young Professional fellowship and National Endowment for Democracy’s professional scholarship. She has also previously served as a research fellow at the Center for Media, Data and Society (Central European University – School of Public Policy), researching topics related to journalistic source protection, online privacy, and data protection, and online political extremism. She is fluent in Hungarian, English, and German. She currently lives in Budapest, Hungary. You can follow her at @wvessna.
By Veszna Wessenauer and Ellery Roberts Biddle When Apple announced its plans to tighten restrictions on third-party tracking by app developers, privacy advocates—including us—were intrigued. The company seemed to be charting a new course for digital advertising that would give users much more power to
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