i'm kevin bankston, the direct to have of the open technology institute, america internet and technology program ensuring all communities have equitable

i'm kevin bankston. america ensures everyone has access to the internet and its open and secure. i want to thank you for joining us here today at erica for our conversation about facebook after cambridge analytica and what we should do next. if you are not sure what i'm talking about you might be in the wrong room but once upon a time there was a fast growing social network called facebook. it hoped to grow even faster by becoming a platform for other apps and so in 2010 it launched an application interface that allowed app developers to use data from facebook users who signed up to use their apps. but there was a big privacy catch, not only could they obtain data from their users but also from the friends of those users and although facebook notified users of the setup through their privacy policies and there was a knock particular easy to find privacy setting for adjusting what day-to-day your friends could sure about you but default on that setting was perhaps to have incredibly broad access to friends data and most ordinary users have little understanding of it. so for about

i'm kevin bankston, the direct to have of the open technology institute, america internet and technology program ensuring all communities have equitable access to an internet open and secure. the home of independent and independently funded ranking digital rights project which is celebrating the 2018 coral corporate accountability index. around the world protecting the privacy, security and free expression rights of their users, using a set of independent cay tors refined over years of research. how many years? well, let me tell you a short story about the development of the index over the years and about the impact of just one of the indicators used in the index to evaluate the companies. i fondly remember coming to the first major private meeting of experts that our founder rebecca convened at new america to get feedback on her goal of an index. in the fall of 2012 before i worked here. from there it was three long years of hard work, building and refining and applying the first version of the index leading to the first publication of the first rankings in 2015. one indicator that ever

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