VIDEO: Rebecca Mackinnon ‘Playing Favorites’ about online threats to #humanrights #netfreedom @rmack

Rebecca Mackinnon is a senior research fellow at the New America Foundation, where her work focuses on holding technology companies accountable to universally recognized human rights standards on free expression and privacy. She is currently working with the University of Pennsylvania and Internews on a new project called Ranking Digital Rights. She recently wrote an article for Guernica Magazine Playing Favorites giving some details of the project’s theme – how the power of big online companies and governments to change local Internet experiences could threaten human rights worldwide. New America Foundation have now posted a video in which she talks about the article.

View on YouTube: http://youtu.be/edUlS_BnA3Y
Transcribe on AMARA: http://www.amara.org/en/videos/X74G4zzz5xYD/
Twitter: @rmack