With the release of her pivotal Consent of the Networked in 2012, RDR Founder Rebecca MacKinnon issued a call to action for civil society to defend our digital rights from companies with the same rigor with which we’ve previously fought for our rights before governments. In
Photo via MidJourney Despite Central Asia’s political turmoil and fragile democratic institutions, its digital services sector has grown steadily in recent years, a trend accelerated during the recent Covid-19 pandemic. With countries across the region continuing to introduce programs focused on digitization—from work-from-home schemes to
The annual AGM (annual general meetings) season at major tech companies recently wrapped up in a climate of increased scrutiny toward the industry, with the rapid emergence of new AI and AI-powered tools. While these new tools may appear to rekindle excitement in an industry
It’s our 10-year anniversary, which means that RDR has been keeping tech companies accountable for over a decade. In honor of this occasion, the RDR team held its first-ever in-person retreat to set our new strategic priorities! It was a fantastic opportunity to get the
Ranking Digital Rights has once again partnered with Global Voices Translation Services to translate the executive summary of the 2022 Big Tech Scorecard into six major languages: Arabic, Chinese, French, Korean, Russian, and Spanish! The RDR Big Tech Scorecard evaluates 14 companies, whose products and
How GLAAD is keeping social media companies accountable through its Social Media Safety Index and its new Platform Scorecard. Last month, hate and harassment of LGBTQ social media users made headlines when actor Elliot Page was deadnamed and misgendered on Twitter by conservative author and
RDR’s 2022 Big Tech Scorecard underlined the dire state of privacy among digital platforms. None of the 14 companies we ranked topped a score of 60 percent, and privacy was the lowest-scoring of our three categories (the others being governance and freedom of expression and
Ranking Digital Rights has once again partnered with Global Voices Translation Services to translate the executive summary of the 2022 Big Tech Scorecard into six major languages: Arabic, Chinese, French, Korean, Russian, and Spanish! The RDR Big Tech Scorecard evaluates 14 companies, whose products and
How GLAAD is keeping social media companies accountable through its Social Media Safety Index and its new Platform Scorecard. Last month, hate and harassment of LGBTQ social media users made headlines when actor Elliot Page was deadnamed and misgendered on Twitter by conservative author and
RDR’s 2022 Big Tech Scorecard underlined the dire state of privacy among digital platforms. None of the 14 companies we ranked topped a score of 60 percent, and privacy was the lowest-scoring of our three categories (the others being governance and freedom of expression and
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