Does Your Favorite Social Network Have Your Back on Privacy?
Think all social networks and Web companies will fight equally for your privacy when the government comes calling? Think again, especially if you are a user of Apple, Comcast, MySpace, Skype and Verizon.
Think all social networks and Web companies will fight equally for your privacy when the government comes calling? Think again, especially if you are a user of Apple, Comcast, MySpace, Skype and Verizon.
Those are the five companies most likely to throw you under the bus altogether, according to the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF).
The digital liberties advocacy group has released a privacy report and petition to rally users around the issue of privacy.
Measuring how tech companies respond to government requests for data, the advocacy group created a handy chart that ranks companies on their past behavior, privacy policies and terms of service, whether they fight for their users’ privacy in court, and their record of pushing for new privacy legislation.
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