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SUMMARY:Ranking Digital Right Project - Rebecca MacKinnon (New America)
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CONTACT:Sophie Eastwood
DESCRIPTION:We rely on dozens of companies – such as Facebook\, Google a
 nd AT&T – for the products and services that power our digital lives. Bu
 t how committed are these companies to respecting our digital rights like 
 privacy and freedom of expression? In early November\, New America's Ranki
 ng Digital Rights project will launch its inaugural Corporate Accountabili
 ty Index with a ranking of 16 of the world’s most powerful Internet and 
 telecommunications companies on their commitments and disclosed practices 
 affecting users’ freedom of expression and privacy. Which companies are 
 doing better than others? What concrete steps can companies take to improv
 e? Come hear director Rebecca MacKinnon explain the most important and sur
 prising findings from the Index.\n\n**************************************
 ****************\n\nRebecca MacKinnon is Director of the Ranking Digital R
 ights project at New America. Author of Consent of the Networked: The Worl
 dwide Struggle For Internet Freedom and co-founder of  Global Voices Onlin
 e\, she was a founding board member of the Global Network Initiative and n
 ow serves on the Board of the Committee to Protect Journalists. Fluent in 
 Mandarin Chinese\, MacKinnon was a Bureau Chief and correspondent for CNN 
 in China and Japan in the late 90s and early 00s.  She is a visiting affil
 iate at the Annenberg School for Communication’s Center for Global Commu
 nication Studies at the University of Pennsylvania\, was an adjunct lectur
 er at the University of Pennsylvania Law School\, and served on the facult
 y at the University of Hong Kong’s Journalism and Media Studies Centre. 
 She has held fellowships at Harvard’s Shorenstein and Berkman Centers\, 
 the Open Society Foundations\, and Princeton’s Center for Information Te
 chnology Policy.
LOCATION:Room G24\, Faculty of Law\, 10 West Road\, Cambridge
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