Protecting user rights. Company rating

The EFF (Electronic Frontier Foundation, fighting for user rights and the privacy of user data on the Web) has published its report showing how large companies protect the rights of their users.

The worst results are Microsoft, Skype, Apple.
Top - Dropbox, Twitter, Sonic (Sonic.net, Californian provider).

Under the cut - a rating of 18 companies + some transcripts.
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Comparison criteria

Notification of users about the interest of the authorities

To get a star in this category, the company must ensure that in the event of a request from the authorities regarding the data of a particular user, this user will be notified about it (if this is not contrary to the law). This gives users the opportunity to protect themselves from the authorities' increased attention to their data.

Transparency of relations with the authorities

The company gets a half star if it publishes open statistics on how often it provides user data to the authorities. The second half of the star is for information about the policy of exchanging data with the authorities.

Fight for the rights of users in court

Everything is clear here - a star for the fact that the company publishes data on court proceedings in which it protested against excessive demands of the authorities regarding access to user data.

Fight for the rights of users in Congress

The star is for supporting the company’s efforts to modernize laws on information security, privacy and the protection of user data.

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