Ranking Digital Rights (RDR), in collaboration with Breakpointing Bad and the International Corporate Accountability Roundtable, is developing a new methodology to assess the policies and practices of Virtual Private Network (VPN) providers.

This survey aims to gather inputs from researchers, advocates, technologists, and practitioners working on VPNs, privacy, circumvention, and digital rights globally. Your expertise and experience are essential to designing a methodology that addresses the key transparency and trust gaps in the VPN ecosystem, while also being useful for the communities most at-risk from unaccountable VPN providers.

As part of the co-design process of the methodology, we are also conducting interviews and focus groups with digital rights organizations across multiple regions and fields. This survey complements those efforts, helping us get a diverse understanding of existing resources, current uses, needs, and gaps the new methodology can fill.

Most questions are optional; feel free to respond as you see fit.