On Tuesday, May 13th at 10 am ET/ 3 pm UK/ 4 pm CET, the Investor Alliance for Human Rights and World Benchmarking Alliance are hosting an hour-long investor briefing on the launch of the 2025 Ranking Digital Rights Index: Big Tech Edition.
The latest findings explore how 14 of the world’s biggest tech companies are performing when it comes to transparency on respecting users’ rights to privacy and freedom of expression. The 2025 edition looks at where tech companies have improved, stagnated, or collapsed in the three years since Ranking Digital Rights last assessed them in 2022. The 2025 report is scheduled to be launched on April 28th, 2025.
From Amazon and YouTube to TikTok, Google Search, and WeChat, the 2025 Ranking Digital Rights Index dives deep into the policies behind 43 of Big Tech’s most dominant platform services.
Join us for the discussion to better understand how Big Tech shapes our digital rights, and what accountability really looks like:
- In what areas have Big Tech companies made progress in respecting digital rights and where are they backsliding? Are we seeing regional rifts in transparency emerge?
- How can investors use the insights from the 2025 Ranking Digital Rights Index to identify severe risks related to privacy and freedom of expression across major tech platforms?
- As we see mixed progress across companies, how can investors tell who’s leading on digital rights and who’s just checking the boxes?
- What responsibility do investors have when it comes to holding Big Tech accountable for how their platforms impact the rights of people online and society at large?
Experts from Ranking Digital Rights at the World Benchmarking Alliance will discuss the latest findings. We will also have an investor discussant and potentially a tech company representative to join the conversation, followed by Q&A. The list of speakers will be announced closer to the date of the webinar.
To learn more about the Investor Alliance’s coordinated Digital Rights and AI Accountability collective investor engagement, please refer to our Tech and Human Rights webpage. If you would like to participate in this engagement initiative, please complete this form.
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