Apple Tops the List of The Companies that Care About Users’ Privacy

Protecting the users’ privacy from corporations, government agencies or just individuals is becoming harder every year. Neither protests, nor laws or precautions save the situation. And they cannot because the battle for privacy is already lost, as users and information security experts believe.

The non-profit human rights organization Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has published an annual report on Internet service providers, assigning them the ratings on the basis of how they treat user data and to what extension they obey the laws while protecting personal information. For the first time Apple won six out of six stars this year, as recently the company released a detailed transparency report on the work with the user data.

Last year the EFF awarded the company from Cupertino with just one star. However, earlier this month, Apple has changed the privacy policy, according to which they will warn users in advance about requests for the access to their accounts, which corporations get from the National Security Agency (NSA) and other U.S. intelligence agencies.

Of the 12 technology companies rated in the list only five were marked with six stars. They are Apple, Dropbox, Facebook, Credo and Google. According to the human rights activists, Amazon and AT&T have the lowest ratings: they both received only 2 stars. High ratings, namely 5 stars, were also given to Internet Archive and LinkedIn.

Source: macdigger.ru