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EFF: Trust Twitter — Not Apple Or Verizon — To Protect Your Privacy
tdog17 writes "Verizon and MySpace scored a zero out of a possible six stars in a test of how far 18 technology service providers will go to protect user data from government data demands. Twitter and Internet service provider Sonic.net scored a perfect six in the third annual Electronic Frontier Foundation 'Who Has Your Back?' report. Apple, AT&T and Yahoo ranked near the bottom, each scoring just one star. 'While we are pleased by the strides these companies have made over the past couple years, there’s plenty of room for improvement. Amazon holds huge quantities of information as part of its cloud computing services and retail operations, yet does not promise to inform users when their data is sought by the government, produce annual transparency reports, or publish a law enforcement guide. Facebook has yet to publish a transparency report. Yahoo! has a public record of standing up for user privacy in courts, but it hasn't earned recognition in any of our other categories. Apple and AT&T are members of the Digital Due Process coalition, but don’t observe any of the other best practices we’re measuring. ... We remain disappointed by the overall poor showing of ISPs like AT&T and Verizon in our best practice categories.'"
Totally off topic, but:
All the US media cares about is ratings because of your stupid setup that has news programs included in channel ratings and because that's how you sell papers. As a result, news organisations only care about covering stories that they think people will want to read about.
Nobody wants to read insightful, factual stories about actual things, especially if they involve other countries somehow, they want to have their views reinforced about how the government is trying to turn the country into a communist superstate, that mexican islamist jihadis are queuing at your southern boarder waiting to blow you all up, that some people are christian and this somehow oppresses those who aren't while those who aren't are similarly oppressing the christians and that 'murica is the greatest country on God's green earth (when it's not being turned into a communist superstate or being flooded with mexican muslims).