The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) released its “When the Government Comes Knocking, Who Has Your Back?” report, tracking some of the Internet’s biggest service providers on their public commitments to their users’ privacy and security.
Increasingly, federal law enforcement agents are demanding that Internet companies provide their users’ data as part of government investigations – sometimes fairly, sometimes unfairly.
EFF examined 18 companies’ terms of service, privacy policies, public representations, advocacy, and courtroom track records, awarding them gold stars for best practices in categories like “tell users about government data demands” and “fight for user privacy in courts.”