Last month, AT&T announced that it may soon roll out a new, low-cost mobile internet plan subsidized by advertising. This came as no surprise to the RDR research team: We’ve been tracking telecommunications companies’ steady push into the mobile ad market for nearly two years.
From friends’ status updates, to messages from political candidates, to regular old ads, what we see on the internet today is rarely left to chance. Online and on our digital devices, technology companies track our every move, collecting troves of information about us that can
Ranking Digital Rights (RDR) seeks input on our work to expand the RDR Corporate Accountability Index to address human rights harms from companies’ use of algorithms, machine learning, and automated decision-making. We also seek feedback on our work to incorporate services offered by Amazon and
Microsoft has unseated Google at the top of the 2019 RDR Corporate Accountability Index. Telefónica outpaced Vodafone among telecommunications companies. Yet despite progress, most companies still leave users in the dark about key policies and practices affecting privacy and freedom of expression, according to the
Research for the 2019 Ranking Digital Rights Corporate Accountability Index began this week, with more than 30 researchers from around the world contributing to the 2019 evaluation. The Index ranks the world’s most powerful internet, mobile, and telecommunications companies on their disclosed policies affecting freedom
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