Changes are happening at RDR! Jessica Dheere, our current deputy director, will assume the role of director as of September 2020. Rebecca MacKinnon will stay on as founding director into 2021. A former journalist and prominent advocate in the digital rights field since 2008, Dheere
This is the RADAR, Ranking Digital Rights’ newsletter. This edition was sent on July 16, 2020. Subscribe here to get The Radar by email. Since our last newsletter, we’ve published our methodology for the 2020 RDR Index , which will evaluate two new companies —
From friends’ status updates, to messages from political candidates, to regular old ads, what we see on the internet today is rarely left to chance. Online and on our digital devices, technology companies track our every move, collecting troves of information about us that can
As the country struggles to respond to COVID-19 and the 2020 elections approach, misinformation on social media abounds, posing a public health threat and a threat to our democracy. In RDR’s new report, “Getting to the Source of Infodemics: It’s the Business Model,” RDR Senior
Shutterstock In early 2019, RDR began the process of revising and expanding the methodology for the 2020 RDR Corporate Accountability Index to address the human rights harms associated with companies’ use of targeted advertising and algorithmic systems, and to widen our scope to include new
Changes are happening at RDR! Jessica Dheere, our current deputy director, will assume the role of director as of September 2020. Rebecca MacKinnon will stay on as founding director into 2021. A former journalist and prominent advocate in the digital rights field since 2008, Dheere
This is the RADAR, Ranking Digital Rights’ newsletter. This edition was sent on July 16, 2020. Subscribe here to get The Radar by email. Since our last newsletter, we’ve published our methodology for the 2020 RDR Index , which will evaluate two new companies —
From friends’ status updates, to messages from political candidates, to regular old ads, what we see on the internet today is rarely left to chance. Online and on our digital devices, technology companies track our every move, collecting troves of information about us that can
As the country struggles to respond to COVID-19 and the 2020 elections approach, misinformation on social media abounds, posing a public health threat and a threat to our democracy. In RDR’s new report, “Getting to the Source of Infodemics: It’s the Business Model,” RDR Senior
Shutterstock In early 2019, RDR began the process of revising and expanding the methodology for the 2020 RDR Corporate Accountability Index to address the human rights harms associated with companies’ use of targeted advertising and algorithmic systems, and to widen our scope to include new
