EFF's Latest Privacy Report Criticizes Amazon and WhatsApp Over Policies That 'Fall Short' (betanews.com) 12
An anonymous reader shares a report: The Electronic Frontier Foundation has published the latest edition of its "Who has your back" privacy report. This is the seventh report from the digital rights group, and this year it criticizes both WhatsApp and Amazon for having policies that "fall short of other similar technology companies." Four big telecom companies -- AT&T, Comcast, T-Mobile, and Verizon -- performed very poorly, while at the other end of the scale Adobe, Credo, Dropbox, Lyft, Pinterest, Sonic, Uber, Wickr, and WordPress were all praised. In all, the report rates 26 technology companies in five key areas relating to privacy and government data requests: "Follows industry-wide best practices," "Tells users about government data requests," "Promises not to sell out users," "Stands up to NSL gag orders" and "Pro-user public policy: Reform 702." While the report points out that some progress has been made, generally speaking, in the technology world, AT&T, Comcast, T-Mobile, and Verizon were all awarded a single star out of a possible five. Amazon and WhatsApp both scored just two out of five, leading the Electronic Freedom Foundation to say: "We urge both Amazon and WhatsApp to improve their policies in the coming year so they match the standards of other major online services."
It's bidness (Score:3)
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Wait, but EFF does have an app?
A privacy policy is like a campaign promise (Score:1)
They're both bullshit, but at least you can verify one of them.
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It still says a lot when you don't even bother to promise anything good. It says you have absolutely no intention of ever falling on the right side of things.
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Bad intentions and broken promises are worse than none at all. In no way does it "fall on the right side of things". It's exactly the opposite.
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"Austria wants to spy on messaging apps, Australia not far behind" (July 11, 2017)
http://www.zdnet.com/article/a... [zdnet.com]
"... install monitoring software on computers and mobile devices of suspects using messaging tools with end-to-end encryption.. "
Time to be "illuminated by the law".
Wassup w/ WhatsApp? (Score:2)
I know that WhatsApp is FaceBook owned, and that FaceBook is hated in this department, but aside from that, what are the issues w/ WhatsApp? Just them peeping into our contacts list and pulling up the profiles of those people (if they're already on WhatsApp) based on the phone#?
GDPR Compliance (Score:1)
For Europeans at least this should change somewhat for the better next year with the GDPR being enforced.
Especially given the penalties for breaches!