Sophia Crabbe-Field is the Senior Editor at Ranking Digital Rights. Prior to joining RDR, she was the associate editor for Democracy: A Journal of Ideas, where she edited pieces from academics, politicians, and journalists on issues ranging from economic inequality to criminal justice to democratic governance. She previously interned with organizations including the Washington Office on Latin America, Public Citizen, Doctors Without Borders, and Amnesty International. She holds a B.A. in Political Science with a minor in Hispanic Studies from McGill University and an MSc in Social Policy from the London School of Economics.
In 2022, for the first time, Ranking Digital Rights divided its flagship Corporate Accountability Index—which, since 2015, has evaluated the world’s most powerful digital platforms and telcos on their respect for human rights—into two, becoming the Big Tech Scorecard (BTS) and the Telco Giants Scorecard
Since 2018, organizations across various socio-political contexts have adapted RDR’s methodology to hold platforms and other ICT services accountable. What do they each have in common? Protecting the rights of some of the globe’s most marginalized and discriminated against populations. Two of the most successful
In 2018, the Cambridge Analytica scandal helped propel the perils of surveillance capitalism into the mainstream. The following year, the release of Shoshana Zuboff’s pivotal book, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, cemented the issues of data privacy and targeted advertising as top problems of our
From its inception, Ranking Digital Rights’s standards and methodology were designed with investors in mind. Indeed, our Corporate Accountability Index was devised almost a decade ago alongside ESG ratings provider Sustainalytics. Since then, RDR has aimed to ensure our standards would be usable for responsible
When RDR’s first Corporate Accountability Index was released in 2015, grading 16 tech and telecom companies on their respect for privacy and freedom of expression, it was the first of its kind to rank the impact of companies on specifically digital rights. Unsurprisingly, it took the policy world
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