{"id":62756,"date":"2018-03-23T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-03-23T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/foxtail\/2018\/03\/23\/rebecca-ricks-documenting-corporate-surveillance\/"},"modified":"2021-02-09T01:35:30","modified_gmt":"2021-02-09T01:35:30","slug":"rebecca-ricks-documenting-corporate-surveillance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/en\/internet-culture\/interviews\/rebecca-ricks-documenting-corporate-surveillance\/","title":{"rendered":"Rebecca Ricks: Documenting corporate surveillance"},"content":{"rendered":"

Mozilla has been increasingly alarmed as Facebook has been involved in one privacy controversy after another. The news that Cambridge Analytica harvested data of Facebook<\/a> users without their knowledge or consent is especially distressing, so much so that we’ve paused advertising on Facebook<\/a>. But this week’s news is just the latest headline about what is really an ongoing issue of data privacy for everyday people. Continued research, pressure<\/a> and vigilance is needed to help people understand the often complicated issues related to their data.<\/p>\n

Mozilla works to educate people<\/a> about digital surveillance<\/a>, data collection and the implications to their private lives once data is collected, but there is always more to do. As a mission-driven not-for-profit, Mozilla also supports people who are helping build a more \u200bhumane\u200b \u200bdigital\u200b \u200bworld \u2014 people like Rebecca Ricks<\/a>, a Ford-Mozilla Fellow<\/a> hosted at Human Rights Watch<\/a>. Ricks is researching corporate governance around data collection and the new reality that corporate surveillance is something we all need to be smarter about.<\/p>\n