With the release of her pivotal Consent of the Networked in 2012, RDR Founder Rebecca MacKinnon issued a call to action for civil society to defend our digital rights from companies with the same rigor with which we’ve previously fought for our rights before governments. In
Photo via MidJourney Despite Central Asia’s political turmoil and fragile democratic institutions, its digital services sector has grown steadily in recent years, a trend accelerated during the recent Covid-19 pandemic. With countries across the region continuing to introduce programs focused on digitization—from work-from-home schemes to
The annual AGM (annual general meetings) season at major tech companies recently wrapped up in a climate of increased scrutiny toward the industry, with the rapid emergence of new AI and AI-powered tools. While these new tools may appear to rekindle excitement in an industry
It’s our 10-year anniversary, which means that RDR has been keeping tech companies accountable for over a decade. In honor of this occasion, the RDR team held its first-ever in-person retreat to set our new strategic priorities! It was a fantastic opportunity to get the
As a researcher at Temple University in Philadelphia, I study how stories about social problems and their possible solutions make their way into the mainstream media, how they get covered, and how audiences respond to them. One key question I look at is: How do
Meta released its first-ever “Annual” Human Rights Report last week, looking at the company’s purported progress toward meeting its human rights obligations from 2020 through 2021. This release follows years of criticism from civil society about Meta’s failure to act in response to accusations of
Over the past weeks, Amazon, Meta, Twitter, and Alphabet (Google) all faced a shareholder reckoning. Nearly 50 petitions launched by investors across the four tech giants called on them to come clean on an array of issues. Many of those issues were related to human
As a researcher at Temple University in Philadelphia, I study how stories about social problems and their possible solutions make their way into the mainstream media, how they get covered, and how audiences respond to them. One key question I look at is: How do
Meta released its first-ever “Annual” Human Rights Report last week, looking at the company’s purported progress toward meeting its human rights obligations from 2020 through 2021. This release follows years of criticism from civil society about Meta’s failure to act in response to accusations of
Over the past weeks, Amazon, Meta, Twitter, and Alphabet (Google) all faced a shareholder reckoning. Nearly 50 petitions launched by investors across the four tech giants called on them to come clean on an array of issues. Many of those issues were related to human
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