Puerto Rico’s Reconstruction Will Be Costly. Documenting Residents’ Property Doesn’t Have To Be.
Yuliya Panfil and Chris Mellon wrote for the Miami Herald about a quick, less expensive way for Puerto Ricans to prove home ownership.
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Investor Update: Lessons From 2018’s Crash Course on Digital Rights
Our 2018 Investor Update reviews key developments of the past year and their relationship to the RDR Index findings and methodology.
Could an Ex-Convict Become an Attorney? I Intended to Find Out
Reginald Dwayne Betts wrote for the NYT Magazine about his experience with post-incarceration restrictions.
How Land Reform Can Help Reduce Terrorism in Pakistan
Tim Robustelli wrote for The Diplomat on land administration reform and its potential impact on terrorism in rural Punjab.
What Mark Zuckerberg Didn’t Tell Congress
Facebook is one of the least transparent social media companies when it comes to personal data and privacy issues.
Facebook has been too casual about data for too long
One lesson is that transparency with the public about all policies affecting users’ rights to privacy & expression is essential.
We need to wake up to the existential threat surveillance capitalism poses to democracy
Privacy, and individual control over one’s data and content, must be baked into the design of the platforms & services people depend upon.
Facebook Scrutinized For Its Data Sharing With Cambridge Analytica
Rebecca MacKinnon was interviewed on NPR’s Morning Edition about the misuse of Facebook data by third parties.
Inside China’s Vast New Experiment in Social Ranking
Mara Hvistendahl wrote the cover story for WIRED’s January 2018. She quoted Rogier Creemers of New America’s Cybersecurity team.
We are in a crisis over trust in government, business and online with no fix in sight
It is unacceptable for algorithms and scoring mechanisms to be opaque and unaccountable to scrutiny.