Landlord database & interactive map to promote property ownership transparency in rental markets

• landlord
• housing
• cities

• Civic data
• Watchdogging and transparency
• Data science for social good

Open source transaction monitoring software

• fintech

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Consumer watchdogging

The Advocacy People support people in advocating for themselves with the NHS, or who are in care, under section in a hospital, secure unit or in the community, among other self-advocacy groups.

• Good health and well-being

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Access social benefits
• Consumer watchdogging

Report an issue to a company, find out about your rights with France's Fraud Control.

• Govtech
• Consumer watchdogging

This website tells a story of how a little known legal [corporate tribunal] mechanism is enriching fossil fuel corporations with public money, delaying climate action and threatening our future.

• Climate action
• sustainability

• Advocacy tech
• Watchdogging and transparency
• Government transparency

The platform for buying and selling proxy voting rights

• commercial

• Consumer watchdogging

An app for tracking political advertisements on Meta-owned advertising platforms such as Facebook and Instagram.

• Civic data
• Watchdogging and transparency
• Voting and elections

Tech company signatories of the voluntary EU Code of Practice on Disinformation report relevant data on disinformation on their platforms

• Civic data
• Fight disinformation
• Consumer watchdogging

Open Terms Archive publicly records every version of the terms of digital services to enable democratic oversight.

• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Digital security and privacy
• Archives

Campaign website explaining landlord / proptech surveillance and what tenants can do to fight back

• housing
• surveillance
• landlord

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Crowdsourcing
• Civic maps

Join the thousands of renters rating and reviewing their landlord, letting agent and rental properties.

• housing

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Consumer watchdogging

Search over 2000 reports of AI harms

• Artificial Intelligence
• Tech for Bad Hall of Shame
• Consumer watchdogging

Эксперты проекта Digital Rating исследовали политики и практики популярных веб-сервисов Рунета по раскрытию данных взаимодействия с госорганами, а также соблюдения прав граждан на свободу информации и приватность.

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Digital security and privacy
• Consumer watchdogging

We help people avoid getting ticketed and towed when they park on the street through simple SMS alerts.

• mobility
• streetscape
• place-based

• Service alerts
• Consumer watchdogging

Revisa aquí cómo impacta la evasión de impuestos en las vidas de los habitantes de América Latina

• taxes

• Civic data
• Advocacy tech
• Watchdogging and transparency

The global archive of research material for investigative reporting.

• Civic data
• Watchdogging and transparency
• Journalism

Search over 120'000 companies to see their controversies and hierarchies! Random Company

• Advocacy tech
• Watchdogging and transparency
• Consumer watchdogging

Use this free tool from JustFix to research your building and investigate landlords! We use property ownership mapping to identify a landlord's portfolio

• housing

• Civic data
• Consumer watchdogging

A platform for CR members to share their stories on a given topic, like medical bills

• Crowdsourcing
• Consumer watchdogging
• Narrative tech

NOYB enforces your right to privacy everyday

• Adjacent Fields
• Digital security and privacy
• Consumer watchdogging

Established on the 18th of July 2001, Penplusbytes is a not-for-profit organization driving change through innovations in three key areas: using new digital technologies to enable good governance and accountability, new media and innovations, and driving oversight for effective utilisation of mining, oil and gas revenue and resources.

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Media literacy
• Consumer watchdogging

The Center for Digital Democracy’s mission is to ensure that digital technologies serve and strengthen democratic values, institutions and processes. CDD strives to safeguard privacy and civil and human rights, as well as to advance equity, fairness, and community.

• Digital security and privacy
• Digital rights
• Consumer watchdogging

Sekretariati i Nismës për Transparencë në Industrinë Nxjerrëse

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Consumer watchdogging

Tu fuente de información mercantil en Internet

• Civic data
• Watchdogging and transparency
• Consumer watchdogging

Open & Disclose aims to provide a platform for media organisations, journalists, columnists, and commentators to make public their interests, with the aim of strengthening institutional credibility, accountability, transparency, and trustworthiness.

• Media
• Watchdogging and transparency
• Fight disinformation

In the "Widely Viewed Content Report", Facebook provides the 20 individual links and 20 individual posts that were seen by the highest number of people, in the US, for the quarter. In this dashboard, we are tracking objective properties of these 20 posts, links, and the producers behind them, as well as the extent to which it is possible for Facebook users to assess the content from a media literacy perspective.

• Facebook

• Media
• Media and social media analysis
• Consumer watchdogging

The Digital Lab Fellowship is a paid, non-resident opportunity to uncover and address emerging consumer harms in the digital world

• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Fellowships
• Consumer watchdogging

Explore Facebook and Instagram Political Ads

• extensions
• Facebook
• Instagram

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Crowdsourcing
• Academia

Political campaigns spend a lot of money to reach voters on Facebook. Are they telling the truth? Are they saying different things to different people? Help hold them accountable by installing our browser plugin, which sends us the ads you see on Facebook.

• extensions
• Facebook
• YouTube

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Crowdsourcing
• Consumer watchdogging

City Possible™ is a new model for urban innovation in which a global network of cities, businesses, academics and communities work together to make the world’s cities more inclusive and sustainable.

• Consumer watchdogging

WIN connects and strengthens civil society organisations that defend and support whistleblowers.

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Consumer watchdogging
• Whistleblowing

ENCO (European Network of Corporate Observatories) is a network of European civic and media organisations dedicated to investigating corporations and corporate power.

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Consumer watchdogging

The EU Whistleblowing Monitor was created by the Whistleblowing International Network to track the progress of transposition of the EU Directive on Whistleblowing across all 27 Member States over the next 18 months.

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Report cards and audits
• Consumer watchdogging

An activist project working and proposing advanced solutions in fields related to digital rights and democracy

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Digital rights
• Consumer watchdogging

Algorithm Watch is a non-profit research and advocacy organization committed to evaluating and shedding light on algorithmic decision-making processes

• The Tech
• Emerging tech
• Artificial Intelligence

An algorithm that attempts to analyze which information the YouTube algorithm is showing to people.

• Google
• YouTube

• The Tech
• Emerging tech
• Artificial Intelligence

Mozilla Foundation's annual naughty and nice list of consumer tech's privacy policies

• guides
• 2023 Webby Awards

• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Digital security and privacy
• Consumer watchdogging

Accountancy is in crisis. The Corporate Accountability Network exists to identify the causes of that crisis and offer solutions to it.

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Consumer watchdogging

Open Ownership (OO) believes that information on the true owners of companies is an essential part of a well-functioning economy and society.

• Civic data
• Watchdogging and transparency
• Consumer watchdogging

The Beneficial Ownership Data Standard enables transparency by providing a solid conceptual and practical framework for collecting and publishing beneficial ownership data, resulting in data that is interoperable, more easily reused, and of higher quality.

• Data schemas and standards
• Consumer watchdogging

Free and Open Company Data on 135 million companies and corporations in over 125 jurisdictions, including US, UK, Switzerland, Panama...

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Watchdogging and transparency

Light into the darkness of the corporate network

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Watchdogging and transparency

Smarter choices for a better world

• Adjacent Fields
• Digital security and privacy
• Digital literacy

By receiving, storing and analyzing flight data, the boards of the country's 17 airports and calculating flight delays help passengers make a data-driven choice

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Consumer watchdogging

We are joining together to stop Amazon’s growing, powerful grip over our society and economy.

• Amazon

• The Tech
• The People
• Emerging tech