Highlights of Corporate Accountability Index coverage; Ranking Digital Rights staff interviews, articles, and op-eds; and other media mentions:
Why Does India Have the Most Internet Shutdowns in the World?, Thought Jungle with Toya, June 16, 2020. Piece citing Jan Rydzak.
Twitter Asks Some Users: Have You Read the Article You’re Retweeting?, Consumer Reports, June 10, 2020. Piece citing Nathalie Maréchal.
Rules for Fair Digital Campaigning, Stiftung Neue Verantwortung, June 8, 2020. Piece citing Ranking Digital Rights.
Trump is making America more like China, CNN, June 1, 2020. Piece by Rebecca MacKinnon.
Toxic Ventures, Civic Hall, May 29, 2020. Piece citing Ranking Digital Rights.
Fake News: US-Think-Tank fordert gegen Infodemie mehr Datenschutz, Heise.de, May 29, 2020. Piece citing Ranking Digital Rights.
特朗普发布行政命令加强对社交媒体内容问责, Voice of America Chinese, May 28, 2020. Piece citing Rebecca MacKinnon and Nathalie Maréchal.
Trump Signs Order to Try to Tighten Social Media Controls, Voice of America, May 28, 2020. Piece citing Rebecca MacKinnon.
New calls to curtail tech’s targeted political advertising, Axios, May 28, 2020. Piece citing Rebecca MacKinnon and Nathalie Maréchal.
COVID-19 Misinformation and Disinformation Responses: Sorting the Good from the Bad, WITNESS Blog, May 2020. Piece citing Ranking Digital Rights.
US authoritarianism threatens the Internet, Data Center Dynamics, May 27, 2020. Piece citing Jan Rydzak.
Social Media is Lowering the Quality of Our Information, Say Ranking Digital Rights Panelists, Broadband Breakfast, May 27, 2020. Piece citing Nathalie Maréchal.
Facebook’s Smooth New Political Fixer, Politico, May 14, 2020. Piece citing Nathalie Maréchal.
Experts weigh in on Facebook’s new Oversight Board, Columbia Journalism Review, May 14, 2020. Piece citing Rebecca MacKinnon.
Rebecca MacKinnon talks about Facebook’s Oversight Board, Columbia Journalism Review, May 12, 2020. Piece citing Rebecca MacKinnon.
Ranking de Derechos Digitales propone varias recomendaciones para mayor transparencia en la moderación privada de contenidos, Observacom, May 8, 2020. Piece citing Ranking Digital Rights.
The world’s highest-profile moderators, Everything In Moderation, May 8, 2020. Piece citing Rebecca MacKinnon.
When Content Moderation Hurts, Mozilla Foundation, May 4, 2020. Piece citing Nathalie Maréchal.
Lies, damned lies, and Big Tech: the dizzying rise of disinformation in the Middle East, Wired, April 29, 2020. Piece citing Afef Abrougui.
Ranking Digital Rights calls for input on draft 2020… Ranking Digital Rights calls for input on draft 2020 Corporate Accountability Index methodology, Business and Human Rights Resource Centre, April 28, 2020. Piece citing Ranking Digital Rights.
Business and Human Rights in the Data Economy, Deutsches Institut für Menschenrechte, April 2020. Piece citing Ranking Digital Rights.
Tech companies’ surveillance-based business models raise human rights concerns & threaten democracy, says Ranking Digital Rights’ report, Business and Human Rights Resource Centre, April 13, 2020. Piece citing Ranking Digital Rights.
Facebook Approved Ads With Coronavirus Misinformation, Consumer Reports, April 7, 2020. Piece citing Nathalie Maréchal.
Facebook responds after marking COVID-19 news articles as spam, The South African, March 18, 2020. Piece citing Ranking Digital Rights.
The coronavirus is forcing tech giants to make a risky bet on AI, The Verge, March 18, 2020. Piece citing Ranking Digital Rights.
Из-за сбоя в системе модерации Facebook стал отмечать посты о коронавирусе как спам, Security Lab, March 18, 2020. Piece citing Ranking Digital Rights.
Diệt nhầm còn hơn bỏ sót, facebook xem tin chính thống về covid-19 là rác, VN Review, March 18, 2020. Piece citing Ranking Digital Rights.
Το Facebook επισημαίνει άρθρα για τον κορωνοϊό ως spam, Sec News, March 18, 2020. Piece citing Ranking Digital Rights.
Facebook: bug no sistema de anti-spam bloqueou conteúdo fiável sobre o Coronavírus, 4gnews, March 18, 2020. Piece citing Ranking Digital Rights.
Le Coronavirus Oblige Les Géants De La Technologie À Faire Un Pari Risqué Sur L’IA, JapanFM, March 18, 2020. Piece citing Ranking Digital Rights.
Facebook’s Misinformation Problem Goes Deeper than You Think, The Verge, March 17, 2020. Piece citing Nathalie Maréchal and Ranking Digital Rights.
Report urges alternative to tampering with tech’s liability shield, Axios, March 17, 2020. Piece citing Ranking Digital Rights.
Facebook was marking legitimate news articles about the coronavirus as spam due to a software bug, The Verge, March 17, 2020. Piece citing Ranking Digital Rights.
Is Tech Transparency Enough to Guard Conservative Speech Online?, NewsBusters, March 17, 2020. Piece citing Nathalie Maréchal and Ranking Digital Rights.
Bug no Facebook marca publicações com notícias sobre coronavírus como spam, Canal Tech, March 17, 2020. Piece citing Ranking Digital Rights.
Stepping up to the challenge: which companies are responding on digital rights?, Access Now, March 11, 2020. Piece citing the 2019 Ranking Digital Rights Corporate Accountability Index.
No Porn for Chinese Stuck Under Virus Lockdown, Foreign Policy, March 6, 2020. Piece citing Rebecca MacKinnon.
How the internet shutdown in Kashmir is splintering India’s democracy, Fast Company, March 3, 2020. Piece citing Jan Rydzak.
The Ever-Increasing Surveillance State, Georgetown Journal of International Affairs, March 2, 2020. Piece citing Ranking Digital Rights.
A bite of the Apple: working together for a win on freedom of expression, Access Now, February 28, 2020. Piece citing the 2019 Ranking Digital Rights Corporate Accountability Index.
“Ethics” and “AI”: Can We Use These Terms to Take Effective Action?, Los Angeles Review of Books (Blog), February 22, 2020. Piece by Rebecca MacKinnon.
Ranking Digital Rights Winter 2020 investor update, Business and Human Rights Resource Centre, January 31, 2020. Piece citing Ranking Digital Rights.
Meet Ranking Digital Rights: Holding Corporations Accountable, NDItech, January 30, 2020. Piece citing Ranking Digital Rights.
Ranking Digital Rights finds Facebook Oversight Board bylaws reflect improved remedy but do not sufficiently center human rights, Business and Human Rights Resource Centre, January 29, 2020. Piece citing Ranking Digital Rights.
Facebook’s oversight board will offer you another way to appeal content removals, CNET, January 28, 2020. Piece citing Ranking Digital Rights.
Facebook’s First Human Rights Chief Confronts Its Past Sins, Bloomberg Quint, January 28, 2020. Piece citing Rebecca MacKinnon.
How India, the World’s Largest Democracy, Shuts Down the Internet, IEEE Spectrum, January 27, 2020. Piece citing Jan Rydzak.
Rebooting Internet Freedom, New America Weekly, January 23, 2020. Piece citing Rebecca MacKinnon.
Apple shareholders propose annual report from its Board of Directors on freedom of expression, iMore, January 4, 2020. Piece citing the 2019 Ranking Digital Rights Corporate Accountability Index.
Human rights benchmarks: Corporate performance rankings on the rise, White & Case, January 10, 2020. Piece citing Ranking Digital Rights and Amy Brouillette.
Talking with Nathalie Maréchal of Ranking Digital Rights, Columbia Journalism Review, December 18, 2019. Piece citing Nathalie Maréchal.
India Adopts the Tactic of Authoritarians: Shutting Down the Internet, New York Times, December 17, 2019. Piece citing Jan Rydzak.
Apple Shareholders, SumofUs, December 16, 2019. Piece citing Ranking Digital Rights.
Event Report: “The State of Digital Rights Due Diligence,” the 2019 GNI Annual Learning Forum, Global Network Initiative, December 11, 2019. Piece citing Nathalie Maréchal.
Open Letter: Coalition Response to Encryption, Open Technology Institute, December 10, 2019. Piece citing Ranking Digital Rights.
Così i governi hanno imparato a bloccare internet (“This Is How Governments Have Learned to Block the Internet”), Il Foglio. December 8, 2019. Piece citing Jan Rydzak.
The Great Disconnect, Data Center Dynamics, December 6, 2019. Piece citing Jan Rydzak.
Holding tech titans accountable amidst global uncertainty, Responsible Investor, December 5, 2019. Piece citing Rebecca MacKinnon.
How governments use the internet to crush online dissent, The Correspondent, November 28, 2019. Piece citing Ranking Digital Rights and Rebecca MacKinnon.
Digging into Facebook’s Fourth Community Standards Enforcement Report, Open Technology Institute, November 26, 2019. Piece citing Ranking Digital Rights.
Who’s at the UN Internet Governance Forum? We are!, Mozilla Foundation, November 26, 2019. Piece citing Ilja Sperling.
Busted! The Truth about the 50 Most Common Internet Myths, Hans-Bredow-Institut, November 25, 2019. Piece citing Ilja Sperling.
Surveillance Giants, Amnesty International, November 21, 2019. Piece citing Ranking Digital Rights.
How smart homes could be wiser, Mozilla Foundation, November 21, 2019. Piece citing Ranking Digital Rights and Lisa Gutermuth.
Digital human rights are next frontier for fund groups, Financial Times, November 10, 2019. Piece citing Ranking Digital Rights.
Is Your Privacy Protected? Here’s How to Find Out, JUST Capital, November 8, 2019. Piece citing Ranking Digital Rights.
Evaluating the Digital Standard, New America, November 6, 2019. Piece citing Ranking Digital Rights.
China 21: Defending Digital Rights, UC San Diego School of Global Policy & Strategy, November 1, 2019. Podcast featuring Rebecca MacKinnon.
Zuckerberg’s speech draws ire from 2020 candidates, civil rights advocates, The Washington Post, October 18, 2019. Piece citing Rebecca MacKinnon.
Going dark: companies today release fewer transparency reports, less data, Access Now, October 9, 2019. Piece featuring Ranking Digital Rights.
Индекс ответственности корпораций: прогресс соблюдения прав человека в интернете, Russian advocacy group RosKomSvoboda, October 8, 2019. Piece featuring Ranking Digital Rights.
Democratic Transparency in the Platform Society, Social Media and Democracy: The State of the Field, October 4, 2019. Piece citing Ranking Digital Rights.
HKMap.Live App擬推iOS版受阻, Hong Kong news outlet HK01, October 4, 2019. Piece citing Rebecca MacKinnon.
Why IT in the Public Sector Is Moving to the ‘Sovereign’ Cloud, ITProPortal, September 24, 2019. Piece citing Ranking Digital Rights.
Protecting Our Rights in the Digital Environment, Luminate, September 19, 2019. Piece featuring Ranking Digital Rights.
Ranking Digital Rights Project Seeks to Compare Privacy and Free Expression by Big Tech and Internet Companies, Broadband Breakfast, September 5, 2019. Piece citing Ranking Digital Rights and Rebecca MacKinnon.
Quarterly Newsletter, Investor Alliance for Human Rights, August 1, 2019. Newsletter featuring Ranking Digital Rights.
In China, Apple isn’t the Privacy Advocate it Claims to Be, Top10VPN.com, July 26, 2019. Piece citing Rebecca MacKinnon.
Can France Rebuild Multilateralism?, digital platform GovInsider, July 24, 2019. Piece citing Ranking Digital Rights.
Everything in Moderation: An Analysis of How Internet Platforms are Using Artificial Intelligence to Moderate User-Generated Content, Open Technology Institute, July 22, 2019. Piece citing Ranking Digital Rights.
Entretien avec Julie Owono, Directrice Exécutive d’Internet Sans Frontières (“Interview with Julie Owono, Executive Director of Internet Sans Frontières”), African media platform Adweknow, July 22, 2019. Piece citing Ranking Digital Rights.
Viral Bahaya #AgeChallenge FaceApp, Bagaimana dengan Aplikasi Lokal? (“Viral Danger, FaceApp #Age Challenge, What about Local Applications?”), Indonesian national newspaper Kompas.com, July 20, 2019. Piece citing Ranking Digital Rights.
What Does Facebook’s ‘Supreme Court’ Mean for the Future of Online Speech?, Indian news website The Wire, July 10, 2019. Piece citing Ranking Digital Rights.
MTN contributed to human rights violations in Sudan, say 23 civil society groups,, South African weekly newspaper Mail & Guardian, July 10, 2019. Piece citing Ranking Digital Rights.
We Have Been Harmonised: Life in China’s Surveillance State by Kai Strittmatter – a review, The Guardian, June 30, 2019. Piece citing Rebecca MacKinnon.
A New Constitution for Content Moderation, OneZero post by David Kaye on Medium, June 25, 2019. Piece citing Ranking Digital Rights and Rebecca MacKinnon.
Samsung reminds rabble to scan smart TV’s for viruses – then tries to make them forget, The Register, June 18, 2019. Piece citing Ranking Digital Rights.
UNESCO’s Internet Universality Indicators showcased at RightsCon 2019, UNESCO, June 14, 2019. Piece citing Ranking Digital Rights and Rebecca MacKinnon.
How do tech companies compare at protecting your digital rights?, World Economic Forum, June 13, 2019. Piece citing Ranking Digital Rights.
Consumer Reports Receives $6M from Craigslist Founder for Digital Lab, Subscription Insider, June 10, 2019. Piece citing Ranking Digital Rights.
Stockholm Internet Forum: Reflecting on democracy in the digital age, in Africa and beyond, Radio Voice of the People (VOP), June 6, 2019. Piece citing the 2019 Ranking Digital Rights Corporate Accountability Index.
Why Craigslist’s founder is funding a new online data privacy initiative, business magazine Fast Company, June 6, 2019. Piece citing Ranking Digital Rights.
Report Shines Spotlight on Apple’s Censorship Practices in China, GreatFire blog, June 6, 2019. Piece citing the 2019 Ranking Digital Rights Corporate Accountability Index.
The 2019 Ranking Digital Rights Corporate Accountability Index, Cuba 2.0 blog, June 3, 2019. Piece citing the Ranking Digital Rights Corporate Accountability Index.
I (dimenticati) diritti digitali [“The (forgotten) digital rights”], Italian publication Altreconomia, June 1, 2019. Piece citing the Ranking Digital Rights Corporate Accountability Index.
Google Tightens Policy for Apps Accessing Google Drive Data, Indian media platform Inc42, May 31, 2019. Piece citing the Ranking Digital Rights Corporate Accountability Index.
Privacy impact of Big Tech breakup far from clear, The Parallax, May 31, 2019. Piece citing Laura Reed.
Яндекс и Mail.Ru обвинили в сокрытии важной для пользователей информации (“Yandex and Mail.Ru accused of hiding important information from users”), Russian magazine Ferra, May 27, 2019. Piece citing the Ranking Digital Rights Corporate Accountability Index.
MTN scores a dismal 16% for data security in global accountability index, South African newspaper Daily Maverick, May 23, 2019. Piece citing Ranking Digital Rights Corporate Accountability Index.
Digital Rights: What you need to know and companies need to show, LinkedIn user Elena Valderrábano, May 23, 2019. Piece citing Ranking Digital Rights.
2019全球科技企业责任指数 百度腾讯分列倒数第二、第三 (“2019 Global Technology Corporate Responsibility Index; Baidu, Tencent second to last”), Voice of America (VOA) Chinese, May 22, 2019. Piece citing the Ranking Digital Rights Corporate Accountability Index.
Ranking Digital Rights Corporate Accountability Index is now online,Center for Media, Data and Society, May 21, 2019. Piece citing the Ranking Digital Rights Corporate Accountability Index.
Minimo avance en politicas sobre privacidad, libertad de expresion y gobernanza en las empresas de internet (“Minimal improvement in privacy policies, freedom of expression, and governance for internet companies”), R3D, May 21, 2019. Piece citing the Ranking Digital Rights Corporate Accountability Index.
Telefónica tops 2019 Digital Rights Ranking Index, Telecompaper, May 21, 2019. Piece citing the Ranking Digital Rights Corporate Accountability Index.
Digital transformation, il cambiamento e nelle mani della societa (“Digital transformation, change is in the hands of companies”), Italian publication WeWealth, May 21, 2019. Piece citing the Ranking Digital Rights Corporate Accountability Index.
RDR 기초조사, 이용자보호 지수 카카오 6위, 삼성 9위 (RDR Corporate Accountability Index, Kakao in 6th Place, Samsung in 9th”), Korean publication eDaily, May 21, 2019. Piece citing the Ranking Digital Rights Corporate Accountability Index.
MTN, African Authorities Questioned Over Data Secrecy, Social Media Hacking and Blocking, Nigerian digital publication Global Sentinel, May 19, 2019. Piece citing the Ranking Digital Rights Corporate Accountability Index.
Microsoft tops in corporate accountability, says report, The Times of India, May 18, 2019. Piece citing the Ranking Digital Rights Corporate Accountability Index.
Africa’s biggest mobile operator is struggling to protect its users’ digital rights, Quartz Africa, May 17, 2019. Piece citing the Ranking Digital Rights Corporate Accountability Index.
Reflections on the Fourth Ranking Digital Rights Corporate Accountability Index, The GNI Blog on Medium, May 17, 2019. Piece citing the Ranking Digital Rights Corporate Accountability Index.
Índice de direitos digitais destaca Telefónica e Microsoft (“Digital rights index highlights Telefónica and Microsoft”), Brazilian publication Teletime, May 17, 2019. Piece citing the Ranking Digital Rights Corporate Accountability Index.
Cybersicurezza e privacy: Protagoniste da VivaTech con l’AI (“Cybersecurity and privacy: hot topics from VivaTech along with AI”), Italian publication WeWealth, May 17, 2019. Piece citing the Ranking Digital Rights Corporate Accountability Index.
Morning Tech: Christchurch call redux – Social media ongoing EU woes – Bruno Le Maire on digital tax, Politico Pro, May 17, 2019. Newsletter citing the Ranking Digital Rights Corporate Accountability Index.
Telefónica lidera el índice Digital Rights en el sector de las ‘telecos’ (“Telefonica leads the Digital Rights index in the ‘telecos’ sector“), Spanish newspaper El Pais, May 17, 2019. Piece citing the Ranking Digital Rights Corporate Accountability Index.
The 2019 Ranking Digital Rights Corporate Accountability Index is now online, website beSpacific, May 16, 2019. Piece citing the Ranking Digital Rights Corporate Accountability Index.
The 2019 Ranking Digital Rights Corporate Accountability Index, Benton Foundation, May 16 2019. Piece citing the Ranking Digital Rights Corporate Accountability Index.
Telefónica encabeza el indice de derechos digitales en telecomunicaciones (“Telefónica leads the digital rights index in telecommunications”), Spanish newspaper El Mundo, May 16, 2019. Piece citing the Ranking Digital Rights Corporate Accountability Index.
رتبهبندی شرکتها بر اساس توجه به حقوق دیجیتال کاربران در سال ۲۰۱۹ (“Companies Ranked Based on Users’ Digital Rights 2019”), Persian-language television channel Iran International, May 16, 2019. Piece citing the Ranking Digital Rights Corporate Accountability Index.
Telefónica lidera el índice del ‘Ranking Digital Rights’ 2019 (“Telefónica leads the ‘Ranking Digital Rights’ Index for 2019”), Spanish newspaper Heraldo, May 16, 2019. Piece citing the Ranking Digital Rights Corporate Accountability Index.
Telefónica ingresa 234 millones al salir de Nicaragua (“Telefónica pays out 234 million as it leaves Nicaragua”), Spanish newspaper El Economista, May 16, 2019. Piece citing the Ranking Digital Rights Corporate Accountability Index.
Ranking Digital Rights 2019 Index finds tech companies “still failing” to curb abuse on privacy and free expression, Business and Human Rights Resource Center, May 16, 2019. Written by Laura Reed.
RDR Launches the 2019 Corporate Accountability Index, Global Forum for Media Development, May 16, 2019. Piece citing the Ranking Digital Rights Corporate Accountability Index.
Microsoft deja sin aliento a Google liderando el índice de responsabilidad corporativa 2019 de Ranking Digital Rights; Telefónica supera a Vodafone entre las empresas de telecomunicaciones (“Microsoft passes Google in the 2019 corporate responsibility index of Ranking Digital Rights; Telefonica surpasses Vodafone among telecommunications companies“), Spanish organization Fundación Karisma, May 16, 2019. Piece citing the Ranking Digital Rights Corporate Accountability Index.
Ranking Companies on Digital Rights, MacArthur Foundation, May 16, 2019. Piece citing Ranking Digital Rights Corporate Accountability Index.
Verizon Media Secures #2 Spot in Industry Ranking on Human Rights Commitments, Verizon Media, May 16, 2019. Piece citing Ranking Digital Rights Corporate Accountability Index.
Facebook changes livestream services after Christchurch shooting, ABC News Australia, May 15, 2019. Media clip featuring an interview with Rebecca MacKinnon
Break the monopoly and regulate Facebook: background and perspectives, Russian news outlet RAPSI News, May 11, 2019. Rebecca MacKinnon quoted.
Civil society, academia and investors make joint statement on Facebook’s Draft Charter, Global Partners Digital, May 10, 2019. Statement citing Ranking Digital Rights as signatory.
Responding to the Christchurch Call, Association for Progessive Communications (APC), May 7, 2019. Piece citing Ranking Digital Rights Corporate Accountability Index.
Facebook plans to create a judicial-like body to address controversial speech, ABA Journal, May 1, 2019. Rebecca MacKinnon quoted.
Most Voters Say Sri Lanka Was Right to Cut Off Social Media Access, Morning Consult, May 1, 2019. Rebecca MacKinnon quoted.
Manipulacje w sieci. Nie musisz wygrać wyborów, żeby rządzić (“Networked manipulation. You do not have to win elections to rule.”), Polish newspaper Gazeta Wyborcza, April 27, 2019. Piece citing Nathalie Maréchal.
Why sovereign public cloud is a game changer for the UK public sector and its citizens, Intelligent CIO, April 25, 2019. Piece citing the Ranking Digital Rights Corporate Accountability Index.
Spotlight: Rethinking digital ads, Mozilla Internet Health Report 2019, April 24, 2019. Piece citing Ranking Digital Rights and the RDR Corporate Accountability Index. Nathalie Maréchal quoted.
Inside Germany’s crackdown on hate speech, Mozilla Internet Health Report 2019, April 24, 2019. Piece citing the Ranking Digital Rights Corporate Accountability Index.
16 Things You Can Do to Make Tech More Ethical, part 1, Fast.ai, April 22, 2019. Piece citing Nathalie Maréchal.
Blogging pioneer calls out journalists’ handling of the tech industry at 20th annual ISOJ, Knight Center for Journalism in the Americas, April 16, 2019. Piece citing Rebecca MacKinnon.
NZ pension funds pushing for change at Facebook, Google and Twitter, Benefits Canada, April 11, 2019. Piece citing Ranking Digital Rights.
How Regulation Threatens Not Just Tech Giants’ Business but Their Popularity Too, Morning Consult, April 3, 2019. Rebecca MacKinnon quoted.
Extrema-direita. Propaganda online e artes marciais a pensar nas eleições (“Far right. Online propaganda and martial arts thinking about the elections”), Portuguese daily Diario de Noticias, March 30, 2019. Nathalie Maréchal quoted.
(In)confessados desejos eleitorais da extrema-direita (“(In) confessed electoral desires of the extreme right”), Diario de Noticias, March 30, 2019. Nathalie Maréchal quoted.
ISPs Were Wrong to Block 8chan After the New Zealand Shooting, Slate, March 28, 2019. Rebecca MacKinnon quoted.
Russians are shunning state-controlled TV for YouTube, The Economist, March 7, 2019. Piece citing the Ranking Digital Rights Corporate Accountability Index.
Here’s how Mark Zuckerberg can save Facebook from itself, WIRED, March 3, 2019. Rebecca MacKinnon quoted.
Introducing the 2019 Clean200, Corporate Knights, February 19, 2019. Piece citing the Ranking Digital Rights Corporate Accountability Index as “the best available privacy benchmark.”
EU proposal pushes tech companies to tackle ‘terrorist content’ with AI, despite implications for war crimes evidence, Global Voices, February 18, 2019. Written by Afef Abrougui.
A privacidade morreu, fomos avisados e escolhemos ignorar (“We have been warned that privacy is dead and we have chosen to ignore it”), Portuguese news portal Sapo 24, February 14, 2019. Piece citing Nathalie Maréchal.
Over 40 Civil Rights, Civil Liberties, and Consumer Groups Call on Congress to Address Data-Driven Discrimination, The Leadership Conference on Civil & Human Rights, February 13, 2019. Piece citing Ranking Digital Rights.
Four years to a first draft: slow progress toward treaty to bind companies, Access Now, January 31, 2019. Piece citing the Ranking Digital Rights Corporate Accountability Index.
Digital rights protection requires a comprehensive and multi-sectoral approach, CriThink, January 31, 2019. Piece citing Rebecca MacKinnon and Nathalie Maréchal.
Mending China’s data fences, Forbes India, January 30, 2019. Piece citing the Ranking Digital Rights Corporate Accountability Index. Laura Reed quoted.
Investors highlight risks for ICT companies that fail to protect digital rights, Business & Human Rights Resource Centre (BHRRC), January 15, 2019. Piece citing the Ranking Digital Rights Corporate Accountability Index.
When it decided to censor Patriot Act in Saudi Arabia, Netflix showed us how it deals with moral dilemmas, British newspaper The Independent, January 2, 2019. Rebecca MacKinnon quoted.
Diprotes kerajaan Arab Saudi, Netflix hapus tayangan komedi soal Khashoggi (“Protested by the kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Netflix deletes comedy show episode about Khashoggi”), Indonesian news agency Antara News, January 2, 2019. Rebecca MacKinnon quoted.
Netflix Bows To Pressure From Saudi Arabia, Taking Down Critical Comedy Show Episode, Inquisitr, January 1, 2019. Rebecca MacKinnon quoted.
Report: Netflix Bows to Saudi Request, Takes Down Critical Comedy Show Episode, TIME, January 1, 2019. Rebecca MacKinnon quoted.
Netflix pulls episode of comedy show in Saudi Arabia, Financial Times, January 1, 2019. Rebecca MacKinnon quoted.
Google must end censored search engine Project Dragonfly, IFEX, December 11, 2018. Piece citing Rebecca MacKinnon.
Open Letter: Response to Google on Project Dragonfly, China, and Human Rights, Human Rights Watch, December 10, 2018. Piece citing Rebecca MacKinnon.
Weibo y el aire de “dictadura expresiva” en las redes sociales de China (“Weibo and the air of “expressive dictatorship” in China’s social networks”), Chilean newspaper El Ciudadano, December 7, 2018. Piece citing Rebecca MacKinnon.
How ads hijacked the dream of the internet. Can digital citizens fight back?, The Christian Science Monitor, December 6, 2018. Nathalie Maréchal quoted.
Over-estimating Technological Solutions and Underestimating the Political Moment?, The GNI Blog on Medium, December 5, 2018. Piece citing Rebecca MacKinnon and the 2014 UNESCO study on “Fostering freedom online: the role of Internet intermediaries” authored by Ranking Digital Rights.
From surveillance to convenience apps, China is spending billions on artificial intelligence startups, Edmonton Journal, December 4, 2018. Piece citing Ranking Digital Rights and the 2018 Corporate Accountability Index.
How will Google plug into China’s all-encompassing internet regime?, Global Voices, November 27, 2018. Written by Afef Abrougui.
La cybersécurité et l’utilisation des données dans la mire des investisseurs (“Cybersecurity and the use of data in the eyes of investors”), French-language Canadian daily Le Devoir, November 24, 2018. Piece citing the 2018 Corporate Accountability Index.
‘Hope is dangerous,’ Philippine daily Inquirer, November 20, 2018. Piece citing Ranking Digital Rights.
Targeted Advertising Is Ruining the Internet and Breaking the World, Vice Motherboard, November 17, 2018. Written by Nathalie Maréchal.
How the Push to Make Data Privacy a Human Right Will Impact Businesses, Marketwatch, November 16, 2018. Piece citing Rebecca MacKinnon and the 2018 Corporate Accountability Index.
Bringing together global governance actors for 3 days: a major challenge successfully met, Paris Peace Forum, November 16, 2018. Piece citing Ranking Digital Rights.
86 Organizations Demand Zuckerberg to Improve Takedown Appeals, Vice Motherboard, November 15, 2018. Piece citing Ranking Digital Rights.
Jours de paix à Paris (“Days of peace in Paris”), Luxembourgish daily newspaper Luxemburger Wort, November 14, 2018. Piece citing Ranking Digital Rights.
Human rights groups want Facebook to offer users ‘due process’ for takedowns, The Verge, November 14, 2018. Piece citing Ranking Digital Rights.
An Open Letter to Mark Zuckerberg: The World’s Freedom of Expression is in Your Hands, Human Rights Watch, November 14, 2018. Piece citing Ranking Digital Rights.
88 rights groups call for Facebook to implement appeals process for removed content, IFEX, November 13, 2018. Piece citing Ranking Digital Rights.
EFF, Human Rights Watch, and Over 70 Civil Society Groups Ask Mark Zuckerberg to Provide All Users with Mechanism to Appeal Content Censorship on Facebook, EFF, November 13, 2018. Piece citing Ranking Digital Rights.
Forumul de la Paris privind pacea a premiat 14 proiecte aflate ’în serviciul multilateralismului’ (“The Paris Peace Forum has awarded 14 projects ‘in the service of multilateralism’”), Romanian news site Stiri pe surse, November 13, 2018. Piece citing Ranking Digital Rights.
Le Forum de Paris sur la paix adopte 14 initiatives concrètes au service du multilatéralisme (“Paris Peace Forum adopts 14 concrete initiatives at the service of multilateralism”), Algerian news agency Algérie Presse Service (APS), November 13, 2018. Piece citing Ranking Digital Rights.
New human rights ranking shows most firms have barely left the starting line, Ethical Corporation, November 11, 2018. Piece citing Ranking Digital Rights.
D-Link Camera Poses Data Security Risk, Consumer Reports Finds, Consumer Reports, October 30, 2018. Piece citing Ranking Digital Rights.
Mit den Tech-Aposteln einmal durch den Cyberspace (“With the tech apostles once through cyberspace”), Swiss daily newspaper Neue Zürcher Zeitung, October 30, 2018. Piece citing Rebecca MacKinnon.
Come Share Your Research at MozFest, Mozilla on Medium, October 25, 2018. Piece citing Ranking Digital Rights.
How the Push to Make Data Privacy a Human Right Will Impact Businesses, Triple Pundit, October 22, 2018. Piece citing Rebecca MacKinnon and the 2018 Corporate Accountability Index.
Compare the world’s largest tech companies on human rights terms, IFEX, October 11, 2018. Written by Afef Abrougui.
Access Now urges action by 22 internet, mobile & telco cos., based on 2018 Corporate Accountability Index, Business & Human Rights Resource Center (BHRRC), October 8, 2018. Piece citing 2018 Corporate Accountability Index.
Wanna compare the world’s largest tech companies on human rights terms? Now you can do it in Korean — and five other languages, Global Voices, September 28, 2018. Written by Afef Abrougui.
«Индекс ответственности корпораций», в который вошли Яндекс и Mail.Ru, переведён на русский (“The Corporate Accountability Index, which includes Yandex and Mail.Ru, is now translated in Russian“), Russian news portal Roskomsvoboda, September 26, 2018. Piece citing the 2018 Corporate Accountability Index.
Access Now calls on 22 major tech companies to account for their human rights practices, Access Now, September 17, 2018. Piece citing the 2018 Corporate Accountability Index.
Sinologie – L’equilibrio digitale tra Stato e Società: il web Cinese e il caso di Sina Weibo (“Sinologie – The digital balance between State and Society: the Chinese web and the case of Sina Weibo“), Chinese online magazine China-Files, September 13, 2018. Piece citing Rebecca MacKinnon.
South Asian governments keep ordering internet shutdowns — and leaving users in the dark, Global Voices, September 7, 2018. Written by Afef Abrougui.
Activists Ask Google: What’s Changed Since 2010?, China Digital Times, August 30, 2018. Piece citing Rebecca MacKinnon.
¡No me obliguen a usar apps! (“Do not force me to use apps”), Colombian newspaper El Espectador, August 24, 2018. Piece citing Lisa Gutermuth.
Apagar internet, o cómo suprimir derechos en la red (“Turn off the internet, or how to suppress rights in the network”), Spanish foreign affairs magazine Politica Exterior, August 24, 2018. Piece citing the 2018 Corporate Accountability Index.
A Snapshot of Digital Rights Coverage in the MENA Region, SMEX, August 23, 2018. Afef Abrougui quoted.
Google Tried to Change China. China May End Up Changing Google, The New York Times, August 22, 2018. Rebecca MacKinnon quoted.
В контакте с правоохранительными органами: как нас защищают соцсети (“In contact with law enforcement agencies: how we are protecting social networks”), Russian daily newspaper Pravo, August 21, 2018. Piece citing the 2018 Corporate Accountability Index.
The corporations’ dilemma: navigating government access to information, Open Global Rights, August 16, 2018. Piece citing Ranking Digital Rights.
Platform Moderation and Its Discontents, Los Angeles Review of Books, August 10, 2018. Piece citing Rebecca MacKinnon.
The Internet of Things Needs Food Safety-Style Ratings for Privacy and Security, Vice Motherboard, August 9, 2018. Piece citing Ranking Digital Rights.
What should Twitter censor?, New Internationalist, August 9, 2018. Piece citing Ranking Digital Rights.
If your heart rate spiked today, your insurance company knows, The Outline, August 9, 2018. Interview with Priya Kumar.
Consumer Reports now evaluates products’ security and privacy, Boing Boing, August 6, 2018. Piece citing Ranking Digital Rights.
Why Apple Pay Is the Highest-Rated Mobile P2P Payment Service, Consumer Reports, August 6, 2018. Piece citing Ranking Digital Rights.
Killing speech softly: How the world’s biggest tech companies are quietly censoring critical expression in the Middle East, Global Voices, August 3, 2018. Written by Afef Abrougui.
Access denied: How Uganda’s social media tax is turning news and information into luxury goods, Global Voices, July 19, 2018. Co-written by Afef Abrougui.
Why Consumers Demand Greater Transparency Around Data Privacy, Security Intelligence, July 17, 2018. Piece citing the 2018 Corporate Accountability Index.
Сможет ли MailRu на деле защитить пользователей от преследований за лайки и репосты? (“Will MailRu really protect users from harassment and likes for repost?”) , Russian news portal Roskomsvoboda, July 7, 2018. Piece citing the 2018 Corporate Accountability Index.
不止腾讯QQ浏览器 〝百度输入法〞被疑偷录音 (“Baidu’s search engine may be secretly tracking users much like Tencent’s QQ browser”), Chinese news site NTDTV, July 2, 2018. Piece citing the 2018 Corporate Accountability Index.
UN Report Sets Forth Strong Recommendations for Companies to Protect Free Expression, Electronic Frontier Foundation, June 27, 2018. Piece citing RDR’s submission to the Special Rapporteur on content regulation in the digital age.
Meet WeChat, the app that’s ‘everything’ in China, The Parallax, June 21, 2018. Piece citing the 2018 Corporate Accountability Index.
How China censors the net: by making sure there’s too much information, The Guardian, June 16, 2018. Piece citing Rebecca MacKinnon.
Nine takeaways from the first day of Responsible Business Summit Europe, Ethical Corporation, June 13, 2018. Rebecca MacKinnon quoted.
These 6 nonprofits are leading on data privacy, Stanford PACS Digital Impact, June 12, 2018. Piece citing Ranking Digital Rights.
Zuckerberg Isn’t a King — He’s an Emperor, Fair Observer, June 12, 2018. Piece citing Rebecca MacKinnon.
Les GAFA respectent-ils nos droits numériques?, L’Atelier BNP Paribas, June 4, 2018. Piece citing the 2018 Corporate Accountability Index.
UN Rapporteur: Human rights central to content regulation, Medianama, May 31, 2018. Piece citing the 2018 Corporate Accountability Index.
First Amendment rights on social media, the Washington DC 100, May 30, 2018. Written by Rebecca MacKinnon.
Coping with the failures of technocratic rule – from Brussels to Silicon Valley, OpenDemocracy, May 30, 2018. Piece citing the 2018 Corporate Accountability Index.
Report of the Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of the right to freedom of opinion and expression, United Nations Human Rights Council, May 29, 2018. Report citing the 2018 Corporate Accountability Index and RDR’s submission to the Special Rapporteur on content regulation in the digital age.
Why you’re getting so many emails about privacy policies, Vox, May 24, 2018. Rebecca MacKinnon quoted.
“Companies are concerned about a loss of their reputation,” DW Akademie, May 16, 2018. Interview with Rebecca MacKinnon.
Scaling research and impacting change, Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society (HIIG), May 15, 2018. Written by Lisa Gutermuth.
Internet Companies Have More Work to Do on Privacy, Freedom of Expression, Report Says, Internet Society, May 15, 2018. Piece citing the 2018 Corporate Accountability Index.
Im Silicon Valley gibt es einen blinden Fleck bezüglich Privatsphäre, Medienwoche, May 14, 2018. Interview with Rebecca MacKinnon.
Facebook Checks Its Bias, Voice of America, May 11, 2018. Piece citing the 2018 Corporate Accountability Index, Rebecca MacKinnon quoted.
Our Decision to Exclude Facebook from our Funds, Domini Impact Investments LLC, May 9, 2018. Piece citing the 2018 Corporate Accountability Index.
Rebecca MacKinnon: “La pubblicità targetizzata è come il carburante fossile,” Wired Italia, May 5, 2018. Rebecca MacKinnon quoted.
Facebook’s Largest Shareholders Urged to Hold the Company Accountable, Open MIC, May 2, 2018. Open letter citing the 2018 Corporate Accountability Index.
From Brussels to Silicon Valley, Coping with the Failures of Technocratic Rule, Freedom House, May 1, 2018. Piece citing the 2018 Corporate Accountability Index.
Empresas de Internet no informan a usuarios cómo afectan sus derechos humanos, R3D, April 30, 2018. Piece citing the 2018 Corporate Accountability Index.
2018 Corporate Accountability Index Highlights Good Practices by GNI Companies, GNI, April 26, 2018. Piece citing the 2018 Corporate Accountability Index.
New ICT ranking shows risk to technology users’ rights increasingly poses material risk, Responsible Investor, April 27, 2018. Written by Rebecca MacKinnon.
New Study Fails Facebook’s Handling of User Information, Slate Future Tense, April 27, 2018. Written by Amy Brouillette.
Telcos must disclose more data about internet shutdowns, say civil society groups, Global Voices Advox, April 27, 2018. Written by Afef Abrougui.
Ranking Digital Rights as Media Reform: Strategies and Tactics, St. John’s University Institute for International Communication, April 27, 2018. Piece citing the 2018 Corporate Accountability Index.
Facebook And Google Finally Take First Steps On Road To Transparency About Content Moderation, Techdirt, April 26, 2018. Piece citing the 2018 Corporate Accountability Index.
Our Discussions About Data Are Incomplete, New America Weekly, April 26, 2018. Written by Ilana Ullman.
Digital Dominance: Is Big Tech Doing Enough to Protect Human Rights?, Center for Media, Data and Society at Central European University, April 26, 2018. Written by Laura Reed.
Facebook is part of an industry-wide problem: lack of transparency about policies affecting users’ online rights, Business and Human Rights Resource Centre, April 25, 2018. Written by Rebecca MacKinnon.
Zuckerberg’s dual role at Facebook helm draws fresh fire, Financial Times, April 15, 2018. Rebecca MacKinnon quoted.
Matter of Fact, ABC News (Australia), April 12, 2018. Rebecca MacKinnon interviewed.
World at Six, CBC News, April 11, 2018. Rebecca MacKinnon quoted (story begins at 10:40 mark).
What Mark Zuckerberg Didn’t Tell Congress, Politico, April 11, 2018. Written by Rebecca MacKinnon.
What the government could actually do about Facebook, Vox, April 10, 2018. Rebecca MacKinnon quoted.
9 questions Congress should ask Mark Zuckerberg, Vox, April 9, 2018. Rebecca MacKinnon quoted.
Facebook has been too casual about data for too long, Financial Times, April 5, 2018. Written by Rebecca MacKinnon.
Europe is trying to force Facebook to take customers’ privacy seriously, Vox, April 5, 2018. Rebecca MacKinnon quoted.
We need to wake up to the existential threat surveillance capitalism poses to democracy, Ethical Corporation, March 28, 2018. Written by Rebecca MacKinnon.
Facebook Scrutinized For Its Data Sharing With Cambridge Analytica, NPR Morning Edition, March 20, 2018. Rebecca MacKinnon interviewed.
Samsung and Roku Smart TVs Vulnerable to Hacking, Consumer Reports Finds, Consumer Reports, February 7, 2018. Piece on Consumer Reports research, based on Digital Standard work with RDR, Disconnect, and the Cyber Independent Testing Lab.
We Need To Shine A Light On Private Online Censorship, Techdirt, January 31, 2018. Piece citing the 2017 and 2015 Corporate Accountability Indexes.
When Transparency Also Needs Transparency, New America Weekly, January 25, 2018. Written by Sergei Hovyadinov.
We are in a crisis over trust in government, business and online with no fix in sight, Washington Post, December 8, 2017. Written by Rebecca MacKinnon.
Women Pioneered The Debate On Platforms. Now Men Are Commandeering It, BuzzFeed, December 2, 2017. Rebecca MacKinnon cited.
Techonomy: How to Fix What’s Wrong with Google and Facebook, PCMag, November 9, 2017. Rebecca MacKinnon quoted.
In authoritarian China, Trump’s love of free expression on Twitter is put to the test, Washington Post, November 8, 2017. Rebecca MacKinnon quoted.
Is it time for Facebook, Twitter, and Google to become more American?, Quartz, November 3, 2017. Rebecca MacKinnon quoted.
Is Facebook Even Capable Of Stopping An Influence Campaign On Its Platform?, Talking Points Memo, September 15, 2017. Rebecca MacKinnon quoted.
Aspen Ideas Festival: Living in the surveillance economy, MPR News, July 31, 2017. Rebecca MacKinnon quoted.
Los usuarios pueden convertirse en una voz poderosa para demandar que las compañías de Internet respeten sus derechos, Fibra Magazine, July 29, 2017. Ilana Ullman interviewed.
Apple’s Long History of Rejecting ‘Objectionable Content’ From the App Store, Motherboard, July 17, 2017. Rebecca MacKinnon quoted.
Can Censoring Social Media Stop Extremism?, The Aspen Institute, June 25, 2017. Rebecca MacKinnon quoted.
Southeast Asian censors test mettle of social media groups, Financial Times, May 25, 2017. Rebecca MacKinnon quoted.
Leaked Docs Spotlight Complexity of Moderating Facebook Content, Tech News World, May 23, 2017. Rebecca MacKinnon quoted.
He Tweeted About Chinese Government Corruption. Twitter Suspended His Account, The New York Times, April 26, 2017. Rebecca MacKinnon quoted.
Data protection agency investigates gov’t sending personal data of Hungarian citizens to Russia, 444.hu, April 17, 2017. Amy Brouillette quoted.
The Price of Digital Rights, Media Power Monitor, April 15, 2017. Nathalie Maréchal quoted.
Analyst reveals Facebook uses analysis tools to keep users online longer, International Business Times, April 10, 2017. Rebecca MacKinnon quoted.
What does Facebook really know about you?, Four Corners / ABC Australia, April 10, 2017. Rebecca MacKinnon interviewed.
Global Inequality in Your Pocket: How Cheap Smartphones and Lax Policies Leave Us Vulnerable to Hacking, Global Voices Advox, March 30, 2017. Written by Nathalie Maréchal.
Social Networks Need Clearer Terms of Service, Slate Future Tense, March 28, 2017. Written by Ilana Ullman.
Android security better, but still dependent on manufacturers, carriers, CyberScoop, March 27, 2017. Nathalie Maréchal quoted.
2017 Corporate Accountability Index Reveals Inadequate Company Disclosure, Center for Media, Data and Society (CMDS), Central European University School of Public Policy, March 27, 2017. Nathalie Maréchal quoted.
Chinese companies Baidu and Tencent rank low in global accountability index, Hong Kong Free Press, March 27, 2017. Piece citing the 2017 Corporate Accountability Index.
Companies And Users Can Do More To Stay Secure With Smart Devices, National Public Radio (NPR), March 26, 2017. Rebecca MacKinnon quoted.
How Do Google, Apple and Others Stack Up When it Comes to Protecting Your Privacy?, Entrepreneur, March 24, 2017. Piece citing the 2017 Corporate Accountability Index.
Digital rights report hits Apple for its secrecy, Yahoo! Finance, March 24, 2017. Piece citing the 2017 Corporate Accountability Index.
Apple, Google More Private Than Russian, Chinese Counterparts—Study, Vocativ, March 24, 2017. Piece citing the 2017 Corporate Accountability Index.
Google Beat Apple on an Accountability Scorecard—And No One Saw It Coming, Observer, March 23, 2017. Piece citing the 2017 Corporate Accountability Index.
Companies Aren’t off the Hook When It Comes to User Privacy, New America Weekly, March 23, 2017. Written by Laura Reed.
GNI Companies Again Top Ranking Digital Rights 2017 Corporate Accountability Index, Global Network Initiative (GNI), March 23, 2017. Piece citing the 2017 Corporate Accountability Index.
Telcos and Internet Companies, Bad at Informing People About Their Rights, Media Power Monitor, March 23, 2017. Piece citing the 2017 Corporate Accountability Index.
Tech Companies Must Earn User Trust: Report Card Finds Firms Too Opaque on Standards, Human Rights Watch, March 23, 2017. Piece citing the 2017 Corporate Accountability Index.
Netizen Report: Why Did YouTube Censor Your Videos? You May Never Know, Global Voices Advox, March 23, 2017. Piece citing the 2017 Corporate Accountability Index.
Las empresas fallan en informar a los usuarios de Internet sobre cómo afectan sus derechos humanos, R3D, March 23, 2017. Piece citing the 2017 Corporate Accountability Index.
Access Now welcomes new Ranking Digital Rights Index, Access Now, March 23, 2017. Piece citing the 2017 Corporate Accountability Index.
Why Are So Many Tech & Telecom Companies Bad At Respecting Your Privacy?, Consumerist, March 23, 2017. Piece citing the 2017 Corporate Accountability Index.
Baidu, Tencent Featured in Ranking Digital Rights Index, China Digital Times, March 23, 2017. Piece citing the 2017 Corporate Accountability Index.
Setting Standards for Digital Privacy, Yahoo! Finance, March 13, 2017. Rebecca MacKinnon quoted.
Testing products for data privacy and security, Boing Boing, March 6, 2017. Piece on Consumer Reports’ work with RDR, Disconnect, and the Cyber Independent Testing Lab.
Consumer Reports to test products for privacy, data security, The Hill, March 6, 2017. Piece on Consumer Reports’ work with RDR, Disconnect, and the Cyber Independent Testing Lab.
Are Your Devices Secure? Consumer Reports Will Now Include Device Privacy, Security In Reviews, International Business Times, March 6, 2017. Piece on Consumer Reports’ work with RDR, Disconnect, and the Cyber Independent Testing Lab.
The internet has a dark side. We need a plan for taming it, World Economic Forum, January 16, 2017. Written by Rebecca MacKinnon.
Russia Requires Apple and Google to Remove LinkedIn From Local App Stores, The New York Times, January 6, 2017. Rebecca MacKinnon quoted.
(Last updated: 19 June 2020)
