The RADAR: Protest, Privacy, and Big Tech’s Profit Machine

This is the RADAR, Ranking Digital Rights’ newsletter. This edition was sent on July 16, 2020. Subscribe here to get The Radar by email. Since our last newsletter, we’ve published our methodology for the 2020 RDR Index , which will evaluate two new companies —

Tackling targeted ads and algorithms: RDR releases methodology for 2020

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

RDR opens public consultation on draft methodology for 2020 RDR Index

Shutterstock In early 2019, RDR began the process of revising and expanding the methodology for the 2020 RDR Corporate Accountability Index to address the human rights harms associated with companies’ use of targeted advertising and algorithmic systems, and to widen our scope to include new

Policymakers must focus on surveillance-based business models: New RDR report

As the 2020 U.S. presidential campaign continues amid a pandemic with no precedent in living memory, politicians on both sides of the aisle are understandably eager to hold major internet companies accountable for the spread of disinformation, hate speech, and other problematic content. Unfortunately, their

The RADAR: Protest, Privacy, and Big Tech’s Profit Machine

This is the RADAR, Ranking Digital Rights’ newsletter. This edition was sent on July 16, 2020. Subscribe here to get The Radar by email. Since our last newsletter, we’ve published our methodology for the 2020 RDR Index , which will evaluate two new companies —

Tackling targeted ads and algorithms: RDR releases methodology for 2020

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

RDR opens public consultation on draft methodology for 2020 RDR Index

Shutterstock In early 2019, RDR began the process of revising and expanding the methodology for the 2020 RDR Corporate Accountability Index to address the human rights harms associated with companies’ use of targeted advertising and algorithmic systems, and to widen our scope to include new

Policymakers must focus on surveillance-based business models: New RDR report

As the 2020 U.S. presidential campaign continues amid a pandemic with no precedent in living memory, politicians on both sides of the aisle are understandably eager to hold major internet companies accountable for the spread of disinformation, hate speech, and other problematic content. Unfortunately, their