Report: Twitter in the protection of user data

Report: Twitter in the protection of user data

According to the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) contrast technology companies concerning the rights and privacy of our users, especially in the face of Government requests for access to data.

Pipped "Twitter" and "Sonic", ISP, six stars to meet all the criteria of evaluation. While "Apple" and "Yahoo" on one star only.

The report examined the performance of eighteen companies in the United States, including Internet service providers and e-mail services, cloud storage, GPS-based services, and blogging platforms and social networks.

The report, which was adopted by the Foundation for the third year in a row, to give one star for each criterion are met between them based on the six criteria of evaluation.

The report explained that the criteria chosen did not include all roads that appear to support the rights of users, but noted their importance and the possibility of registering openly, and valuation bases included:

1. request for delegation of authorities causes include access to data for users.

2. the promise of informing users about Government requests for data, unless prohibited by court order or by law.

3. dissemination of the reports.

4. publishing company policies regarding mode of dealing with Government requests.

5. defend the privacy of users, as a previous incidents where companies defended the rights of users versus Government requests, with reference to some of the companies are not subjected to similar positions.

6. defend the privacy of users in the US Congress, granting corporate star report that support efforts to modernize electronic privacy laws to join the Digital Due Process Coalition, which seeks to improve the telecommunications law.

According to the Electronic Frontier Foundation, concerned with digital rights, the report urged the companies to be more transparent about how to access government data users, encouraging them to support user privacy whenever possible.

And adopted the conclusions of the report "Electronic Frontier Foundation" to review the terms of service and privacy policy of each company, and transparency, and procedures for dealing with legal requests, along with the record company in defending the privacy of our users, whether a member of the Digital Due Process coalition.

The report noted some improvement compared with the past two years. It has become a tradition in transparency reports the number of Twitter and Microsoft release their reports for the first time. And evaluation of other like "foursquare" this year to four stars compared to zero last year.

Some companies promised to inform users and applications including: dropbox, weforskoer, LinkedIn, and Sonic. While absent from Google for this category. Some companies joined the defenders of the rights of users to improve the communications laws such as foursquare, the last Templar, "WordPress".

The report also showed more interest from companies to declare its policy in dealing with requests from government agencies for data users, including: Google, weforskoer, Microsoft, the last Templar, WordPress, Comcast, and "sbaidrawak".

Among top rated "dropbox" and Google and Microsoft they embitter and spider oak "five stars for each of them. Facebook received three stars, the report urged the largest global social network to disseminate transparency reports.

This year's report included for the first time blogging platforms such as "Templar" has three stars, and "WordPress" which got four stars.

And Yahoo gained one star for supporting the rights of users, without that meet any of the other criteria. It is the same "Apple" and AT&T on one star only for the membership in the Alliance seek to change the laws. It also has "MySpace" and "Verizon" no score.

The report said company Amazon which gained two stars, while possessing a vast amount of information and data by users as part of cloud computing services and sales operations, but does not guarantee informed users to request their statements by Governments, or handling such requests, nor does it provide an annual transparency reports.

Nate Cardozo commented, from the Electronic Frontier Foundation: "there is much in this report to celebrate, but there is also a need for further improvement. Service providers possess vast amounts of data, and must not allow Governments to search without reason and ensure that misused. This report should be a warning to Internet users that they need more protection from companies that trust on digital communications.

Assessment of 18 companies of the third report of the Digital Frontier Foundation