Twitter Beats Facebook, Apple, MySpace, Skype on Privacy, but Isn’t Perfect

A report card issued by the Electronic Frontier Foundation this week ranks some of the largest Internet companies across several measures of privacy and transparency – and Twitter comes out near the top of its class.

The EFF’s privacy report card is part of a larger petition that the Foundation sent on Monday to all of the listed Internet companies, “asking them to stand with their users and be transparent in their practices”.

The EFF measured just how well each company is doing across four fronts: telling users about data demands, being transparent about government requests, fighting for users’ privacy in the courts, and fighting for users’ privacy in congress.

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