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01 Dec The Radar: Are Telcos Getting a Pass on Digital Rights?

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Mark your calendars! On Monday, we’re releasing the 2022 Telco Giants Scorecard, RDR’s ranking of the world’s most powerful telecommunications companies on their policies related to users’ fundamental rights, including freedom of expression and privacy. Set a reminder for December 5 to visit rankingdigitalrights.org and see which telco giant tops this year’s list, which companies improved the most, and which ones are lagging behind.

For the first time, we’re releasing our findings on telcos separately from tech platforms. Our Big Tech Scorecard, published earlier this year, covered 14 digital platforms and highlighted the fact that digital platforms are doing far too little to address the negative ramifications of their policies, including during critical moments like elections and pandemics.

This time around, we want to highlight the particular risks and harms to users’ digital rights created by telcos. While digital platforms have been a mainstay in our public discourse in recent years for the harms they perpetuate (consider recent media coverage of the downfall of our Big Tech top scorer Twitter), telcos are still the primary providers of internet access globally. And they are just as likely to enable human rights violations, while being even less transparent about their activities.

This is particularly true in two areas with risks to human rights usually associated with platforms: algorithmic systems and targeted advertising. Telcos, whose operations are much more intimately tied with governments, also perpetuate harms that platforms do not. For example, governments, especially authoritarian regimes (recall the recent protests in Iran), have been ordering telcos to shut down their networks with increasing regularity.

This year’s Telco Giants ranking dives deep into freedom of expression and network shutdowns, privacy issues and mass surveillance, and the unique ways telcos engage in targeted advertising in our nine Key Findings essays. We also address how telcos differ from platforms, how our methodology treats them differently, and the unique challenges they face.

RSVP to Join the Conversation “Are Telcos Getting a Pass on Digital Rights?” on December 7th

On Wednesday, December 7 at 9:30 a.m. ET, we’ll host a panel of experts from civil society and industry to discuss the findings from the Telco Giants Scorecard, where telcos are failing to protect digital rights, and how they can improve. We’ll also look at what happened to the once critical debates around the role of telcos and how we can resuscitate them.

Joining the conversation are:

Jason Pielemeier, Executive Director, Global Network Initiative
Laura Okkonen, Investor Advocate, Access Now
Thomas Lohninger, Executive Director, epicenter.works

RDR’s director, Jessica Dheere, will open the conversation with high-level takeaways from the 2022 Telco Giants Scorecard, and our Scorecards program manager, Veszna Wessenauer, will moderate.

RDR’s Comment to the FTC: It’s Time to End Surveillance Ads

On November 21, RDR submitted comments to the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) in response to its Announcement of Proposed Rulemaking (ANPR) on commercial surveillance and data security. With passage of the ADPPA still stalled, and in the absence of a robust federal privacy law, the FTC launched an inquiry this summer looking into commercial surveillance practices, citing “the explosive growth in the information collection economy.”

In our comment, we highlight the myriad harms of commercial surveillance, while urging the Commission to use its authority to regulate it and ultimately abolish surveillance advertising. We highlight the harms stemming from a lack of transparency, poor governance, and inadequate enforcement of policy that make the advertising ecosystem ripe for exploitation. One of the many examples we cite: Meta has long struggled with the spread of content related to human trafficking and domestic servitude. In fact, as recently as 2018, the company had no policy against posts recruiting domestic servants.

But among the most pressing issues related to the digital advertising industry is the lack of meaningful consumer privacy safeguards. As media scholar Sarah Myers West (now an advisor to FTC Chair Lina Khan) has underscored, an entire sector of the economy is “premised on the collection and commoditization of user data.”

Our recommendations include moving beyond “notice and consent” frameworks, specifying permissible purposes for data collection, and regulating commercial surveillance as an unfair trade practice–de facto banning surveillance advertising.

Recent Events

December 7: Responsible Investor USA | How can responsible investors take on Big Tech?

RDR Investor and Company Engagement Manager Jan Rydzak will join a panel focused on Big Tech accountability at this year’s Responsible Investor USA conference.

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RDR Media Hits

The Logic: RDR Policy Director Nathalie Maréchal spoke to The Logic about how Elon Musk fails to understand responsible content moderation and Twitter’s “unaccountable-billionaire problem.”

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30 Nov Press Release: Ranking Digital Rights Announces Inaugural Telco Giants Scorecard

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**FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE**

November 30, 2022

Contact: Anna Lee Nabors, comms@rankingdigitalrights.org

Telcos are less transparent than their Big Tech peers, despite perpetuating the same human rights harms as digital platforms; Spain’s Telefónica tops RDR’s first Telco Giants Scorecard.

Washington, D.C. — On Monday, Ranking Digital Rights will launch its first Telco Giants Scorecard, which evaluates and scores major global telecommunications companies (telcos) on more than 250 aspects of company policies that affect people’s human rights, focusing on corporate governance, freedom of expression and information, and privacy.

Though Big Tech companies have stolen the spotlight in recent discussions of the ills of our information systems, our findings show that telecommunication companies are perpetuating the same digital rights harms and facing far less scrutiny. Telcos are also disclosing significantly less information about their policies and practices than Big Tech companies. As the primary providers of internet access across the globe, the effects of their policies and practices on digital rights are in desperate need of renewed attention.

“Big Tech platforms like Facebook, Twitter, Google, and Apple have dominated media coverage of social technologies in recent years, but when telecommunications operators, as bona fide utilities, fail to commit to human rights and policy transparency, they can cause exponentially more harm,” says RDR Director Jessica Dheere. “Around the world, telcos are most people’s first and only point of access to the internet, and when that access is revoked or the information it leads to is distorted, such as through zero rating or targeted advertising, it can cause irreparable damage not just to people’s rights but to their lives.”

WATCH OUR VIRTUAL LIVE EVENT “ARE TELCOS GETTING A PASS ON DIGITAL RIGHTS?” VIA LIVESTREAM AT 9:30 A.M. ET ON DECEMBER 7. RSVP.

The RDR Telco Giants Scorecard analyzes the policies of 12 of the biggest global telecommunications companies headquartered in 10 different countries on five continents. The Scorecard is a part of the RDR Corporate Accountability Index, which also includes the Big Tech Scorecard that ranks 14 of the world’s most powerful social media and e-commerce platforms. Every company we rank has its own report card that offers a detailed look at highlights from the past year, key takeaways, recommendations, and changes.

Spain-based Telefónica came out on top. But South Africa’s MTN and Mexico’s América Móvil led on improvements by increasing the transparency of their policies significantly. Both companies cited RDR’s standards as the roadmap for their new transparency reporting. The changes in their scores reflect the improvements that are possible when companies prioritize human rights.

This kind of transparency is the essential first step toward accountability and improvements in this area are vital. UAE-based e& (formerly Etisalat), as well as Qatari company Ooredoo, which is currently offering free SIMs to World Cup visitors, came in at the bottom of our ranking once again as they continue to lack any substantive form of transparency.

U.S.-based company AT&T made modest improvements, but not enough to move up to second place. Following the U.S. Supreme Court decision overturning federal abortion rights, AT&T declined to clarify how its policy on government demands for user information would be applied to abortion-related cases.

Telcos’ Negative Human Rights Impact

Overall, the companies we ranked showed improvements in all three categories in our ranking system: governance, freedom of expression, and privacy. But these improvements were primarily led by just a few companies, with freedom of expression remaining a serious blind spot for all organizations. This is particularly true in two areas with risks to human rights more commonly associated with platforms: algorithmic systems and targeted advertising. Technology in both of these areas is evolving rapidly, with strong incentives at present for telcos to exploit their large troves of data by engaging further in surveillance-based, behavioral advertising.

Telcos, whose operations are much more intimately tied with governments, also perpetuate harms that digital platforms do not. Governments, especially in authoritarian and authoritarian-leaning regimes, have been ordering telcos to shut down their networks with increasing regularity. Recently, such blackouts have been used in an attempt to quell protests in Iran. Net neutrality is another weak point for freedom of expression, with all but U.S. company AT&T offering a zero-rating program. These programs exempt access to, and usage of, certain services, apps, or content from a user’s data consumption or data cap. Though zero rating has come under increased regulatory scrutiny in Europe, its harms will likely continue unabated in the Global South, where many individuals rely on zero-rating programs like Meta’s Free Basics to access the web.

This year, our research has highlighted a number of events that illustrate the potential human rights risks posed by telcos. These include:

– Norway’s Telenor sold its Myanmar subsidiary after the military junta seized power and began ordering that the company spy on citizens and shut down the internet. The operation was sold to Lebanese company M1, which later transferred 80% of the company to a Myanmar conglomerate with ties to the military junta. The sale led to an uproar from civil society.

– In the Global South, and particularly in Africa, governments have begun forcing companies to push users off of their plans if they refuse to link their government ID or biometric data to their SIM cards. This has affected millions of users so far. While distinct from shutdowns, these disconnections still have important negative impacts on freedom of expression, and the verification process poses immense privacy risks.

– The U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, the court decision protecting the right to abortion. This decision not only threatens fundamental reproductive rights in the United States, but also has potential far-reaching impacts on privacy rights. Data that tech and telecommunications companies collect from users, including search history, messages, and geolocation information, could be weaponized against abortion patients as “evidence” in criminal investigations. Companies like AT&T have been slow to respond to concerns.

– Tourists are piling onto Ooredoo’s networks, as Qatar hosts the 2022 FIFA World Cup this November-December. Ooredoo has remained the worst-scoring company since we began ranking it in 2017. Among other things, the company is opaque about how it handles government demands for customer data, though Qatar is infamous for surveillance. Ooredoo is also offering a free Hayya SIM card for those using Qatar’s Hayya app (mandatory for all visitors), but the company is requiring the use of sophisticated AI technology to onboard customers that includes biometric facial data.

If you’re interested in obtaining embargoed materials ahead of Monday’s release, please write to us at: comms@rankingdigitalrights.org.

You can also contact us to speak directly with an expert:

EXPERTS

Jessica Dheere, Director, @jessdheere
Florida, USA; EDT (GMT – 5)

Areas of Expertise

Corporate accountability in the digital age
Business and human rights
Algorithmic content-shaping and the targeted advertising business model
Global trends in freedom of expression and privacy
RDR Index findings and positioning

Nathalie Maréchal, Policy Director, @marechalphd
Washington DC, USA; EDT (GMT – 5)

Areas of Expertise

Corporate accountability in the digital age
Business and human rights
Algorithmic content-shaping and the targeted advertising business model
Global trends in freedom of expression and privacy
Why RDR was created, and its global vision and mission
Geopolitical lens on business and human rights

Jan Rydzak, Company and Investor Engagement Manager, @ElCalavero
Washington DC, USA; EDT (GMT – 5)

Areas of Expertise

Network shutdowns
Content moderation
Role of investors/ESG/SRI
Transparency reporting
Human rights due diligence
Disinformation and crisis
Analysis of company announcements and news
United Nations and technology

Ranking Digital Rights is an independent tech policy research and advocacy program at New America in Washington, D.C. We evaluate the world’s most powerful companies on their publicly disclosed policies and practices affecting users’ freedom of expression and privacy. Now in their seventh year, our rankings have seen companies progressively commit to protecting users’ rights in greater numbers. Visit us online at rankingdigitalrights.org or follow us on Twitter @rankingrights.org.

ABOUT NEW AMERICA: New America is a nonprofit, nonpartisan public policy institute dedicated to renewing America in the digital age through big ideas, technological innovation and creative engagement with broad audiences. To learn more, please visit us online at www.newamerica.org or follow us on Twitter @NewAmerica.

29 Nov RDR’s First-Ever Telco Giants Scorecard Is Coming Soon!

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Save the date! RDR’s Telco Giants Scorecard is coming soon. Our set of telco rankings will launch on December 5, featuring our evaluations of 12 telecommunication companies’ published policies and their effects on people’s human rights. The companies we rank cover ten countries, with subsidiaries operating in more than 150 nations. Overall, the ramifications of these companies’ policies touch billions of people worldwide.

Following Up on this Spring’s Inaugural Big Tech Scorecard

Since 2015, we have published five editions of our Corporate Accountability Index, evaluating the world’s most powerful digital platforms and telecom companies according to their policies on corporate governance, freedom of expression and information, and privacy. The RDR Index has appeared almost annually (in 2015, 2017, 2018, 2019, and 2020) since our inception.

This year, for the first time, we divided our Corporate Accountability Index into two parts. The first part, now known as the Big Tech Scorecard, published in April, covered 14 digital platforms. The Big Tech Scorecard highlighted the fact that digital platforms are doing far too little to address the negative ramifications of their policies, including during critical moments like elections and pandemics. Moreover, Twitter came out on top of our ranking for its detailed content and content moderation policies. But now, with Elon Musk at the helm, the company appears to be hard at work dismantling key policies, and firing the human rights team, that helped it achieve its top spot.

Spotlighting Telcos’ Unique Human Rights Harms

While digital platforms have received a great deal of attention lately for the harms they perpetuate, telcos, still the primary providers of internet access globally, are just as likely to enable human rights violations. This is particularly true in two areas with risks to human rights usually associated with platforms: algorithmic systems and targeted advertising. In fact, there are strong incentives at present for telcos to exploit their large troves of data by engaging further in surveillance-based advertising.

Telcos, whose operations are much more intimately tied with governments, also perpetuate harms that platforms do not. Governments, especially in authoritarian regimes, have been ordering telcos to shut down their networks with increasing regularity. Meanwhile, all but one company we rank, U.S.-based AT&T, offers a zero-rating program, in violation of net neutrality principles. And, if pressured to do so, telcos can also hand over users’ communications, demographic, and billing data to both governments and corporate actors that can abuse this data for their own gains. Telcos, and the human rights risks they perpetuate, are in clear need of renewed attention.

Like the Big Tech Scorecard, the Telco Giants Scorecard will include per-company evaluations, industry-wide rankings, and a summary of key findings. We’ve separated our key findings into nine standalone essays, focusing on key themes specific to telcos. This includes a spotlight on net neutrality and zero rating, freedom of expression issues like shutdowns, a look at the unique ways telcos participate in targeted advertising, as well as an essay examining the discrepancies between parent companies and their subsidiaries in committing to human rights.

Expanding the Scope of RDR’s Accountability Standards

Some of the key findings this time around are buttressed by data from partner organizations that have adapted RDR’s methodology to help keep telcos accountable in their local contexts, as well as supplemental findings describing the ways in which telcos are engaged in targeted advertising. Many of the threats we document, including network shutdowns and internet censorship, are amplified even further in the majority world thanks to information asymmetries about the unique ways company policies violate human rights in these countries. In addition, subsidiaries of large telecom multinationals do not always implement the same level of human rights protections for their operating companies as they do in their home market. In October, we launched our Research Lab, which provides researchers and advocates with the tools necessary to continue implementing and adapting RDR’s methodology, thus extending the reach of our accountability standards.

Finally, while telcos perpetuate important digital rights harms, they also disclose less information about their policies and practices. We hope that by giving telcos their own output, we might be able to shed new, much-needed light on their activities. And we hope that more peers in the digital rights and corporate accountability communities—including activists, researchers, journalists, policymakers, and investors—will join us.

28 Nov RDR’s Submission to the FTC on Commercial Surveillance

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On November 21, RDR submitted comments to the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) in response to its Announcement of Proposed Rulemaking (ANPR) on commercial surveillance and data security.

As we note in the submission, we commend the FTC for its thoughtful consideration of the problems associated with commercial surveillance, including surveillance advertising and data security, and welcome the opportunity to respond to the ANPR. The concerns raised by the FTC have important implications for privacy, freedom of expression, the right to non-discrimination, and the enjoyment of other fundamental rights. In the absence of robust private or public mechanisms for corporate accountability, the harms stemming from commercial surveillance practices are simultaneously less visible than they should be and increasingly dangerous and difficult to address. We conclude our comment with a set of recommendations for the Commission to consider in its future rulemaking proceedings, which you can find below.

In our comment, we highlight the myriad harms of commercial surveillance, while urging the Commission to use its authority to regulate it and ultimately abolish surveillance advertising. While doing so, the Commission must also recognize that the path ahead is fraught with political and legal uncertainty. Not least among these uncertainties is the future of the American Data and Privacy Protection Act (ADPPA). The Commission should not let the perfect be the enemy of the good, nor should it be unnecessarily timid in its ambition to protect consumers.

More specifically, our recommendations include:

That the FTC regulates commercial surveillance as an unfair trade practice–de facto banning surveillance advertising.
Moving beyond “notice and consent” frameworks, which put the onus on consumers to read and understand complex privacy policies and legal notices.
Establishing standards for data minimization and purpose limitation through a Section 5 Unfairness Rulemaking.
Specifying permissible purposes for data collection, use, and sharing. Our recommendation on this item is largely congruent with what’s proposed in the ADPPA, while also urging the FTC to prohibit all surveillance-based targeted advertising.
Finally, RDR recommends that the Commission obligate companies to disclose their data practices to the FTC and to the public, as well as submitting to regular audits.

Read RDR’s full submission to the FTC on Commercial Surveillance and Data Security.

15 Nov The Radar: Musk’s Twitter Takeover: Why the Public Square Can’t Rely on Surveillance Ads

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It’s been less than one month since Twitter officially became the plaything of billionaire Elon Musk. In that time, the company that topped our 2022 Scorecard has gone a long way toward unraveling much of the work that recently earned it our top spot.

In other words, Musk has already proven our worst fears about his management of the platform. A decade ago, many in the top echelons of Twitter saw the platform as the “free speech wing of the free speech party.” Yet, since then, the company made a concerted effort to improve both its enforcement of rules and its transparency. A lot of this seems out the window now. For one, Musk has gotten rid of the entire human rights team and other experts on international human rights standards. Twitter, like other platforms, had in place a practice of pushing back against calls for violence from government actors and their attempts to block content. Twitter’s ability to do both these things is severely curtailed. Musk also introduced an $8 fee for “verification” that many worried could imperil the work of journalists and activists. This new feature was paused on Friday after an immediate proliferation of impersonations of high-profile accounts.

On the platform in question, RDR’s Jan Rydzak has a must-read thread on these and other ways Musk is already turning Twitter into a paragon of “pay-for-play anarchy.”

Is a boycott from advertisers, Twitter’s real customers, now the only way to hold the “Chief Twit” accountable for respecting democracy and human rights? This is the question RDR’s Policy Director Nathalie Maréchal asks in a piece for our home institution, New America.

Unfortunately, that may just be the case. That’s why RDR has joined more than 60 other civil society groups in calling on Twitter advertisers to demand that Musk #StopToxicTwitter.

But if advertisers have that kind of power, that’s only because the system is rotten. At the heart of the problem, Nathalie points out, is that a profit-seeking entity dependent on advertising revenues can never be a truly democratic digital public square. This is true whether or not Musk decides to run Twitter with profit in mind, or by enacting his own murky concept of “freedom,” in other words his own personal whims. (We’ve already seen that parodies of Musk seemingly aren’t protected by his version of the First Amendment.)

Social media companies are thus “trying to square an impossible circle”: provide what billions of people have come to see as an essential public service while delivering returns to shareholders. And taking Twitter private won’t free the company of this issue: Repaying the banks who underwrote the sale could cost up to $1 billion a year, The New York Times has reported.

As Nathalie explains, and as RDR has pointed out time and time again, any business that relies on pervasive and sustained human rights violations will only foster more abuse. And this is very much the case with surveillance advertising. Algorithms optimized to make sure users click as much as possible, to see as many ads as possible, necessarily lead to a major decline in the quality of our information. Yet, moderating content at scale in a responsible way is extraordinarily expensive, and the money has to come from somewhere.

For this reason, RDR will be watching with a close eye the seeming mass migration from Twitter to Mastodon. Might Musk’s disastrous first days as Twitter head be the spark that pushes us to seek out new more democratized and decentralized communications systems? And if so, what new business models will emerge to fund them? Only time will tell.

Red Card on Digital Rights at the 2022 World Cup

As the 2022 FIFA World Cup approaches, RDR has teamed up with Arab digital rights NGO Social Media Exchange (SMEX) to launch a three-part series, “Red Card on Digital Rights.” The series investigates the state of the internet and digital surveillance in host country Qatar, amid a slew of criticism over the country’s human rights record.

Read Part One of “Red Card on Digital Rights.” →

See also how SMEX adapted RDR’s methodology to analyze the policies of the Hayya app, which is required to attend the games, and the risks it poses to users’ privacy.

The RDR Research Lab Is Finally Here! How We’re Helping Grow the Global Tech Accountability Movement

For years, civil society organizations across the world have been adapting RDR’s standards to highlight how a lack of platform accountability affects digital and human rights in their home countries.

In October, RDR launched a new online learning hub for digital rights researchers and advocates who wish to join them and launch their own project to keep digital platforms, telecommunication companies, and other digital service companies accountable to users and to the public, anywhere in the world.

The site guides researchers through the process of designing, executing, and promoting research on platform accountability using RDR’s methodology and standards. This guide is based on our experience producing the RDR Corporate Accountability Index and Big Tech and Telco Giants Scorecards, as well as on feedback from civil society partners who have published their own RDR-style reports.

Read more from RDR’s Global Partnerships Manager Leandro Ucciferri about the Lab . →

How RDR’s Standards Are Being Used in Some of the Most Precarious Spots for Digital Rights

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This year, in South and Southeast Asia, EngageMedia and other local digital rights organizations worked with RDR to investigate the policies of local telcos, as well as the subsidiaries of telco giants like Orange, within the context of the digital security issues faced by human rights defenders in the region.

The dramatic growth in the use and availability of mobile broadband across Asia has meant unprecedented access to new tools like email, messaging apps, and social media for the region’s human rights activists. But this has also resulted in the growth of online attacks to intimidate those fighting injustice, including female journalists, indigenous youth, and LGBTQ activists.

With governments around the world failing in their duty of protection, corporate accountability has become an increasingly important tool for civil society actors looking to enhance digital rights.

Also, find out how researchers and advocates in Lesotho, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Angola, and the Central African Republic are using our standards to hold telcos accountable for privacy and other essential human rights. →

Digital Rights Dialogues: Hear Directly From People Holding Platforms Accountable for Human Rights

Our research lab features interviews with the advocates and researchers already using RDR’s standards to keep platforms accountable, including in some of these most critical spots for digital rights.

In September, protests erupted across Iran following the death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini, who died in police custody after being arrested for “improperly” wearing her hijab, according to the country’s “morality police.” This mass mobilization was sparked over social media, where news of the death spread rapidly. Yet, in response to ongoing protests, online organizing has been met with internet shutdowns and app outages.

We recently published an interview with Roya Pakzad and Melody Kazemi, of Taraaz and Filterwatch, whose 2020 report evaluated the policies of four popular local and two international (WhatsApp and Telegram) messaging apps in Iran.

In this conversation, they discuss the longstanding use of government shutdowns, the Iranian government’s efforts to push citizens onto government-controlled apps, the proposed “User Protection Bill” that threatens to further block access to social media and the web, and the importance of the country’s corporate accountability movement.

And, check out our interview with Jenni Olson from GLAAD about how the LGBTQ rights org used RDR’s standards to keep Big Tech accountable for online hate. →

RDR Media Hits

The Washington Post: The Technology 202 covered Fight for the Future’s “Make DMs Safe” campaign calling on tech platforms to implement end-to-end encryption by default, which RDR joined. The article quotes RDR Policy Director Nathalie Maréchal: “I think most people don’t understand that if they communicate through, say, Facebook Messenger … that it’s not actually private.”

Recent Events

Global Voices | Can citizens of democracies still trust the law?

RDR Program Manager Vezsna Wessenauer joined a Global Voices panel to discuss how governments are increasingly using the law to infringe on citizens’ digital rights.

Watch the panel

Save the Dates!

December 5: Save the Date for the First Edition of RDR’s Telcos Giant Scorecard!

December 7: Save the Date for our TGS Launch Event!

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30 Nov Press Release: Ranking Digital Rights Announces Inaugural Telco Giants Scorecard

Telcos’ Negative Human Rights Impact

29 Nov RDR’s First-Ever Telco Giants Scorecard Is Coming Soon!

Following Up on this Spring’s Inaugural Big Tech Scorecard

Spotlighting Telcos’ Unique Human Rights Harms

Expanding the Scope of RDR’s Accountability Standards

28 Nov RDR’s Submission to the FTC on Commercial Surveillance

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