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Stories like AT&T’s deep collaboration with U.S. intelligence agencies and Facebook’s opaque content moderation processes that have silenced human rights activists around the world make it clear that these companies’ policies have real impacts on people’s everyday lives.
Each year, our partners at Ranking Digital Rights release the Corporate Accountability Index, which evaluates 22 of the world’s most powerful internet, mobile, and telecommunications companies on their disclosed commitments and policies affecting freedom of expression and privacy. While some companies are doing better than others, it is clear that improvement is needed across the board:
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Access Now has delivered open letters to each of the companies in the index (available below), calling on them to respond to the findings, address key questions about their practices regarding privacy and free expression, and strengthen their commitment to protecting their customers’ human rights.
Each company has been given a deadline of September 26, 2018, to answer this call. Each response will be published with the Business and Human Rights Resource Centre (BHRRC), and we will be following up with analysis of the results and opportunities for further action.
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- About
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