This chapter explores the power of big tech companies like Meta and Facebook in influencing freedom of expression and access to news, and argues for holding them accountable for their impact on human rights. It suggests promoting data literacy as a universal right to education and training data scientists and engineers with a focus on ethics and societal implications.
Today, Wendy Wong, a political scientist at the University of British Columbia, Okanagan, stops by to tell us why we need to reboot rights in this data-intensive world.