Who fails EFF’s annual data privacy test? Hint: WhatsApp

June 18, 2015 by Paul Spoerry 2 Comments

Who Has Your Back? Government Data Requests 2015 | Electronic Frontier Foundation
Follows industry-accepted best practices, Tells users about government data demands, Discloses policies on data retention, Discloses government content removal requests, Pro-user public policy: opposes backdoors. Adobe. Amazon. Apple. AT&T, N/A. Comcast, N/A. Credo. Dropbox. Facebook. Google …

The Electronic Freedom Foundation’s (EEF) annual ‘Who’s Got Your Back?’ report, which looks at privacy concerns and government requests for data, was just released. WhatsApp is the only service to receive a 1-star rating and they were only given that because of Facebook’s publicly stated policy opposing the inclusion of backdoors that can be exploited by government agencies.

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Scott Duensing says

June 18, 2015 at 8:27 pm

Whaaa? Not SnapChat?
Paul Spoerry says

June 19, 2015 at 7:39 am

Prolly not even worth putting on the list +Scott Duensing ;O)

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