Electronic Frontier Foundation rates Twitter tops for privacy, Myspace worst
The EFF released their annual "Who's got your back?" report this week, which rates "the policies of major Internet companies — including ISPs, email providers, cloud storage providers, location-based services, blogging platforms, and social networking sites — to assess whether they publicly commit to standing with users when the government seeks access to user data."
They use six metrics: Require a warrant for content of communications; Tell users about government data requests; Publish transparency reports; Publish law enforcement guidelines; Fight for users’ privacy rights in courts; Fight for users’ privacy in Congress.
"This year two companies received all six possible stars: Sonic.net and Twitter. We are extremely pleased to recognize the outstanding commitment each of these companies has made to public transparency around government access to user data...this year — as in past years — MySpace and Verizon earned no stars in our report. We remain disappointed by the overall poor showing of ISPs like AT&T and Verizon in our best practice categories."
And, just for the flamewar (because the EFF's word is pretty much as close as you can get to God's in this debate)...
Google: 5/6, Apple: 1/6
