Requests · Open intake
Request a Sovereign Beacon™ rating
Tell us what to rate. Our Beacon agent reads its privacy policy and the public record and drafts a rating under our methodology; a steward reviews it before it is published. New ratings drop every Thursday and Sunday. Anyone can ask — users, researchers, journalists and the companies themselves.
1 · What should we rate?
What we consider
- Consumer hardware with internet connectivity (cameras, wearables, IoT, phones, laptops)
- Consumer apps and services (messaging, social, productivity, finance, health)
- Websites that collect or process personal data at scale
- AI tools and assistants (chat, voice, companion, agent)
- Privacy laws and regulations (bills, statutes, enforcement actions — at any level of government)
What makes a submission strong
- Verifiable sources. Regulator filings (FTC, AGs, EU DPAs), reputable press, court documents, peer-reviewed research, vendor policies. We do not publish from un-cited assertions.
- Specific claim. "TikTok's 2026 policy expanded location collection" is rateable; "TikTok is bad" is not.
- Recent. We weight events from the last 24 months unless the older context is foundational (e.g. landmark settlements).
- Reproducible. If your claim depends on a screenshot or a test, please describe how a third party could re-verify.
Prefer email?
You can also send evidence and supporting files by email — useful for documents the agent can't reach on the open web.
Or email [email protected] directly.
What happens next
- Duplicates are caught at once: if it's already rated you get the link; if someone already asked, you follow their request.
- The Beacon agent on Google Cloud reads the privacy policy and finds dated, verifiable events; every source it cites is checked to exist.
- The rating is produced under our published methodology and reviewed before publication.
- On publication day, the rating goes live on sovereignware.org/ratings/ with full sources, beacon state, and right-of-reply contact.
If you are the rated party
You're welcome here too. Submissions from companies about their own products are accepted and clearly noted. We will hold material claims to the same source-verification standard. If a rating already exists and you wish to respond, see our right-of-reply policy.