EFF releases 'Who Has Your Back 2014' report, top scorers include Google, Apple, Facebook and Dropbo
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The EFF releases this report every year, 'Who Has Your Back 2014', where they look into how much effort companies put into protecting user data and fight for user rights. The full chart is in the source but here's the first 5 names on the list:
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[URL="https://www.eff.org/who-has-your-back-government-data-requests-2014"]Full EFF report[/URL]
It's especially bizarre when you compare the scores to [url=https://www.eff.org/who-has-your-back-2013]last year's[/url].
I feel like a lot of them cleaned up and specified what they'd do after the whole Snowden leak mess last year.
no, apple is evil!
[QUOTE=.Lain;44824112]no, apple is evil![/QUOTE]
Apple are a bunch of huge dicks on the corporate level. It's more ambiguous on a user level.
i would say apple are pretty awesome on the user experience front in my experience. what with their open source projects, awesome customer support and warranties i don't have anything to complain about
i don't know about the corporate level as much, but i feel like there's a stigma against apple's because it's constantly brought to light by the media; i'm sure most companies partake in their fair share of shit, though i could be wrong
[QUOTE=.Lain;44824133]i would say apple are pretty awesome on the user experience front in my experience. what with their open source projects, awesome customer support and warranties i don't have anything to complain about
i don't know about the corporate level as much, but i feel like there's a stigma against apple's because it's constantly brought to light by the media; i'm sure most companies partake in their fair share of shit, though i could be wrong[/QUOTE]
Apple is/was being pretty shitty about warranty in the EU.
Google, Microsoft, Twitter, Yahoo and Facebook also have full scores.
i'm more surprised about twitter than anything
Apple have always done a top job with customer support and being transparent on things
As soon as that NSA shit sparked up they were the first to come clean about what has been going on and the process in which data has to be requested
I wonder if they collect the pictures sent in snapchat.
Adobe, who leaked a bunch of user login and [u]possible credit card info[/u].
Kudos to the EFF (whom I have stickers on all my shit from) for doing this, but if you really want privacy. go with a more reliable open source self hosted system: Make your own mail host, use a VPN, mumble instead of skype, etc.
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[QUOTE=tigerman4111;44824322]I wonder if they collect the pictures sent in snapchat.[/QUOTE]
I don't know much about snapchat, but I imagine they could make all data gathering moot if they encrypted the pictures with asymmetric encryption.
Tbh I normally get a little skeptical when large companies talk about being transparent. I mean, wouldn't they say that? Isn't it really easy for them to say that?
Lol snapchat is the only 1 star
[QUOTE=A_Pigeon;44826110]Lol snapchat is the only 1 star[/QUOTE]
oh no! think of the banana suit snaps!
[QUOTE=Bora;44808488]i dressed up as a banana one day
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never again[/QUOTE]
How do companies like Google, Facebook, Apple, etc have full 6 stars? The only reason they started fighting for privacy in court was for their PR departments to be able to save face.
[QUOTE=Egonny;44827288]How do companies like Google, Facebook, Apple, etc have full 6 stars? The only reason they started fighting for privacy in court was for their PR departments to be able to save face.[/QUOTE]
Because data is incapable of cynicism.
[QUOTE=Egonny;44827288]How do companies like Google, Facebook, Apple, etc have full 6 stars? The only reason they started fighting for privacy in court was for their PR departments to be able to save face.[/QUOTE]
To be fair, often times the Gov't makes really broad requests, and fulfilling them (especially if you're as big as youtube) could be very expensive, they'd have to collect all the data (which takes time off their machines), dedicated somewhere to collate and store it (probably a multi tb hard drive), and that's only assuming Google alone.
Dropbox is supposed to be private if you want it to be, google is usually understood to be less private because, ya know, Ads. But Dropbox can be paid, and because of that it has a higher expectancy of privacy. IIRC Dropbox has all the data encrypted before uploaded to S3, so all your data is pretty secure.
I guess the most concerning is Amazon's policy, since they host large portions of the web (Reddit, Imgur, etc.) use them for various hosting purposes: and I don't know how many encrypt the data when stored there.
Seems like a really, really odd list
Snapchat? Really?
And yet we are missing massive cable companies like Time Warner Cable.
And some of the stars seem silly. "THIS COMPANY WILL SPEND LOADS OF MONEY FIGHTING FOR YOU IN COURT!" I can't think of a situation where anyone will find themselves suing the US govt or a private party for abusing their Snapchat photos and then snapchat spending lawyer money backing that person up.
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