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The 2025 RDR Index: Big Tech Edition

Three years in the making, our newest assessment of 14 global tech giants and 43 of their services reveals surprising shifts and alarming declines.

Press Release: The RDR 2025 Index: Big Tech Edition is out now!

With the tech industry undergoing seismic shifts since our last assessment, what is Big Tech doing, if anything, to better protect its users?

RDR’s Methodology Spotlights the Need for Transparency on Shutdowns and Censorship in Central Asia

RDR’s methodology was used to examine how tech companies in Central Asia, a region plagued by recent internet shutdowns and censorship, perform when it comes to respecting human rights & protecting users.

Discover a Decade of RDR, 10 Years of Human Rights in Action

To mark a decade of milestones in upholding digital rights globally, you can now browse our Decade of Tech Accountability in Action page.

The RDR Standards Story: Tracing 10 Years of RDR’s Methodology

The story of how the RDR standards came to be a decade ago, and how they’ve evolved since to best examine company policies and the changes needed to protect our rights online.

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A decade of tech accountability in action

Over the last decade, Ranking Digital Rights has laid the bedrock for corporate accountability in the tech sector by demanding transparency from both Big Tech and Telco Giants.

Companies We Rank

Every year, we evaluate 26 of the world’s most powerful digital platforms and telecom companies on how well they uphold the human rights that are fundamental to our dignity and democracy.

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Press Release: 2025 RDR Index spotlights stagnation from Big Tech despite seismic shifts in the industry

RDR Staff

**FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE** April 28, 2025 Amsterdam, 28 April 2025 — Despite growing threats to users’ rights online and the explosion of generative AI, the world’s largest tech giants are still failing to create the guardrails needed to protect the rights of billions of

Rising Telecom Concentration, Stagnating Transparency: The RDR Methodology Helps Uncover the Digital Rights Challenge in Albania

Leandro Ucciferri

Photo by ev on Unsplash. In 2022, as part of our effort to expand corporate accountability in the Majority World under the auspices of the Greater Internet Freedom Consortium, we partnered with the Balkan Investigative Reporting Network (BIRN) to collaborate on a research project using

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Red Card on Digital Rights

A story of control, censorship, and state surveillance during the FIFA World Cup in Qatar

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