Corporate Accountability News Highlights is a regular series by Ranking Digital Rights highlighting key news related to tech companies, freedom of expression, and privacy issues around the world. Network shutdowns ordered in India to prevent exam cheating and quell protests  Despite human rights concerns, authorities

These days, telecommunications companies in Russia are key players in the government’s increasingly sophisticated internet censorship and surveillance apparatus. Authorities have broad discretion to block a wide array of online content without a court order and without explanation. Telecom operators are obliged to monitor the

Corporate Accountability News Highlights is a regular series by Ranking Digital Rights highlighting key news related to tech companies, freedom of expression, and privacy issues around the world. Uganda to review social media tax The Ugandan government is reviewing its decision to impose taxes on

The EU moves forward with new copyright rules European lawmakers are moving forward with new copyright rules despite warnings from digital rights advocates over measures they say could increase internet censorship and stifle freedom of expression. Last week, the EU’s Legal Affairs Committee (JURI) approved