Leandro Ucciferri is the Global Partnerships Manager at Ranking Digital Rights. He is a lawyer specializing in technology policy and regulation about the right to privacy, data protection, and cybersecurity. Before joining RDR, Leandro was a researcher and project officer at the Association for Civil Rights (ADC, in Spanish), a non-profit and independent NGO, based in Buenos Aires, Argentina, from 2015 to 2020. At ADC, Leandro managed research projects and advocacy campaigns focused on the right to privacy in the digital age. He has published reports covering issues such as biometrics, encryption, surveillance, cybersecurity, financial technologies, and digital identity. He has participated as a speaker in international conferences including at the United Nations, the OECD, RightsCon, the IGF. You can follow him at @leoucciferri
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
Photo via MidJourney Despite Central Asia’s political turmoil and fragile democratic institutions, its digital services sector has grown steadily in recent years, a trend accelerated during the recent Covid-19 pandemic. With countries across the region continuing to introduce programs focused on digitization—from work-from-home schemes to
The release of ChatGPT in November and the imminent reality of artificial intelligence permeating our lives like never before has redirected the public’s attention to the ever-growing power of new technologies and the companies that wield them. Today, as part of our mission to provide
Today we formally launch the RDR Research Lab, a new resource that guides digital rights researchers through the process of designing, executing, and promoting research on platform accountability anywhere in the world, using RDR’s methodology and standards.
Photo by Dying Regime via CC 2.0 The dramatic growth in the use and availability of mobile broadband in South and Southeast Asia has meant unprecedented access to new tools like email, messaging apps, and social media for the region’s human rights defenders. But, despite
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