**FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE** December 5, 2022 Contact: Anna Lee Nabors, comms@rankingdigitalrights.org Washington, D.C. — Telcos are perpetuating many of the same harms to privacy and freedom of expression as digital platforms, while facing far less scrutiny, according to the Ranking Digital Rights Telco
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
**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
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
Photo created by Bricklay. Via Noun Project. 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
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
**FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE** October 11, 2022 Contact: comms@rankingdigitalrights.org Ranking Digital Rights Launches New Research Lab to Help Global Civil Society Groups Hold Big Tech Accountable Washington, D.C. – Today, Ranking Digital Rights (RDR) is launching the RDR Research Lab, which will serve as a learning
Today we formally launch the RDR Research Lab, a new resource that guides digital rights researchers through the process of designing, executing, and promoting research on platform accountability anywhere in the world, using RDR’s methodology and standards.
In this conversation, RDR’s Leandro Ucciferri and Aliya Bhatia speak with Roya Pakzad and Melody Kazemi about Iran’s government-led startup boom, the localization efforts that threaten users’ rights, and the unique role that the diaspora plays in advocating for digital rights.
