Charting the Future of Tech Accountability

For the past six years, an independent research program at New America called https://rankingdigitalrights.org/ (Ranking Digital Rights) has evaluated the policies and practices of some of the world’s largest technology and telecom firms, producing a dataset that reveals their shortcomings with respect to human rights obligations. Ranking Digital Rights evaluates more than 300 aspects of each company it ranks that fall broadly into three categories: governance, freedom of expression, and privacy. Following the release of this year’s report, which https://techpolicy.press/ranking-digital-rights-twitter-at-top-of-failing-class-of-tech-firms/ (we covered at Tech Policy Press), Ranking Digital Rights hosted a session on Charting the Future of Big Tech Accountability. Nathalie Maréchal, Policy Director at Ranking Digital Rights and a past guest on this podcast, moderated the panel, which included: Sarah Couturier-Tanoh, Shareholder Association for Research and Education (SHARE) Jesse Lehrich, Co-Founder, Accountable Tech  Chris Lewis, President and CEO, Public Knowledge Katarzyna Szymielewicz, President, Panoptykon Foundation Sophie Zhang, activist and Facebook whistleblower