Leandro Ucciferri, Ranking Digital Rights

Digital rights advocate and lawyer, he focuses on shedding light about how digital technologies can both empower and undermine the enjoyment and exercise of human rights. Since 2013, he’s been a critical voice challenging techno-solutionist narratives seeping from the public and private sectors, both at a regional and global level. Through public policy analysis and in-depth research, he raises awareness about how technologies may lead to harm to fundamental rights and how concentration of power in the tech industry is hindering society.

In 2015, he joined the Association for Civil Rights in Argentina, authoring breakthrough research on biometrics and digital identity, surveillance, cybersecurity, data protection, and encryption. In 2021 he joined Ranking Digital Rights, where he leads engagements with civil society, responsible investors, and the private sector.

“In order to make technology work for us, instead of it being a tool of oppression and extraction, we must start with knowing our rights, so we can harness our individual and collective power to shape how and who decides what technologies are valuable for society.”