Our inaugural Telco Giants Scorecard ranks 12 of the world’s most powerful telecom companies on their commitments to protect users’ freedom of expression and privacy rights. It reveals that telecom companies, despite being gatekeepers of the internet for most of the world, are less transparent overall and more susceptible to government demands than their Big Tech peers. Visit the Telco Giants Scorecard and our Key Findings essays to learn why.
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.
Imagine a social media service removing a journalist’s reporting on social protests at the behest of an authoritarian government. Or a platform allowing the rampant spread of disinformation from public authorities to suit their political narrative. Perhaps a telecommunication operator regularly providing user data from
**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
