The 2019 RDR Index ranks 24 internet, mobile, and telecommunications companies on their disclosed commitments and policies affecting freedom of expression and privacy. For each company, we selected up to five services to evaluate. For telecommunications companies, we evaluate prepaid and postpaid mobile, and in most cases (when offered by the company) fixed-line broadband services. For internet and mobile ecosystem companies, we evaluated up to five of the following types of service depending on what the company offers: cloud, mail, messaging and VoIP, mobile ecosystems, search engines, and social networking and blog platforms. Read more about the methodology development, research process, and how we score each company.

To see how each service performed in comparison with those of other companies, click on a service category:

Services

  • Cloud service
    iCloud [Apple] Baidu Cloud [Baidu] Drive [Google] Mail.Ru Cloud Solutions [Mail.Ru] OneDrive [Microsoft] Samsung Cloud [Samsung] Tencent Cloud [Tencent] Yandex.Disk [Yandex]
  • Email
    Gmail [Google] Daum Mail [Kakao] Mail.Ru [Mail.Ru] Outlook.com [Microsoft] Yahoo! Mail [Verizon Media] Yandex.Mail [Yandex]
  • Fixed broadband
    AT&T [AT&T] Airtel India [Bharti Airtel] Deutsche Telekom [Deutsche Telekom] Etisalat UAE [Etisalat] MTN South Africa [MTN] Ooredoo Qatar [Ooredoo] Orange France [Orange] Movistar [Telefónica] Telenor Norway [Telenor] Vodafone UK [Vodafone]
  • Messaging & VoIP
    iMessage [Apple] Messenger [Facebook] WhatsApp [Facebook] Kakao Talk [Kakao] Mail.Ru Agent [Mail.Ru] Skype [Microsoft] WeChat [Tencent] QQ [Tencent]
  • Mobile ecosystems
    iOS [Apple] Google Android [Google] Samsung Android [Samsung]
  • Prepaid and postpaid mobile
    Telcel [América Móvil] AT&T [AT&T] Celcom [Axiata] Airtel India [Bharti Airtel] Deutsche Telekom [Deutsche Telekom] Etisalat UAE [Etisalat] MTN South Africa [MTN] Ooredoo Qatar [Ooredoo] Orange France [Orange] Movistar [Telefónica] Telenor Norway [Telenor] Vodafone UK [Vodafone]
  • Search engine
    Baidu Search [Baidu] Google Search [Google] Bing [Microsoft] Daum Search [Kakao] Yandex Search [Yandex]
  • Social networking & blog
    Baidu Postbar [Baidu] Facebook [Facebook] Vkontakte [Mail.Ru] QZone [Tencent] Twitter [Twitter] Tumblr [Verizon Media]
  • Video & photo sharing
    Instagram [Facebook] YouTube [Google] Periscope [Twitter]