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Best Tech Company's who protect from government --

Now this is a very interesting twist. Of the list of companies, the biggies are up there. This is a very surprising list from EFF.

I would normally disregard marketing fluff, but I'm pretty sure EFF doesn't have any other motivation.

The six categories: Requires a warrant for content; Tells users about government data requests; Publishes transparency reports; Publishes law enforcement guidelines Fights for users' privacy rights; in courts; Fights for users'; privacy rights in Congress

Perfect Scores:
• Apple 6 stars. Change from 2013: 5 stars. (Tie)
• Yahoo: 6 stars. Change from 2013: 5 stars. (Tie)
• Facebook: 6 stars. Change from 2013: 3 stars.
• Microsoft: 6 stars. Change from 2013: 2 stars.
• Google: 6 stars. Change from 2013: 1 star. (Tie)
• Dropbox: 6 stars. Change from 2013: 1 star. (Tie)

Wall of Shame:
• Adobe: 3 stars. Change from 2013: N/A.
• Comcast: 3 stars. Change from 2013: 1 star.
• Foursquare: 3 stars. Change from 2013: -1 star.
• MySpace: 3 stars. Change from 2013: 0 stars.
• Amazon: 2 stars. Change from 2013: 0.
• AT&T: 2 stars. Change from 2013: 1 star.
• Snapchat: 1 star. Change from 2013: N/A.

(Mods, if wrong forum, then feel free to move - but my guess is that we Linux users are a little better equipped and aware of privacy concerns).

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Microsoft gets six stars huh?

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There is a forum here specifically for security and privacy issues that may be better for this: »Security

ImpldConsent
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Bah - my bad; regardless, Karl Bode See Profile trumped the story on the front page. AT&T Flounders in Latest EFF Privacy Report this morning. He's the boss

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Yeah.. I think I'll move this over to the Security forum. Probably a much more fitting place for this

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This list should've been dated April 1st...

Waiting on the next list from EFF pertaining to companies that are sharing all users information with 3rd parties, oh wait, its the same list.

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Hmm. What's missing in the EFF review are two additional critical categories: Refuses government requests/suggestions to backdoor their servers/software, refuses to provide any form of user-identifying data to 3rd parties (which the government could then exploit from them). Without both these, the others are useless.
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List the NSA on the Wall of Shame for protecting data. Snapchat probably beats them!