Apple has again earned five stars in the Electronic Frontier Foundations’s “Who Has Your Back” report, which evaluates the practices of major internet companies and service providers with regards to government data requests.
In the EFF’s report, companies earn one star for following industry-accepted best practices, one for telling users about government data demands, one for disclosing policies on data retention, one for disclosing government content removal requests, and one for opposing “backdoors.”
Apple gets a star for all five of them.This is Apple’s fifth year in the report, and it has adopted every best practice we’ve identified as part of this report,” says the EFF. “We commend Apple for its strong stance regarding user rights, transparency, and privacy.”
The EFF highlights some of the measures Apple takes to protect its users, like requiring a search warrant before allowing law enforcement agencies to access user content — and then providing users with advance notice about those government data demands.
Apple also provides full disclosure on its data retention policies, and any content removal requests it receives. Finally, the Cupertino company opposes “backdoors,” which provide government agencies with access to servers as and when they want it.
Other companies awarded five stars by the EFF this year include Adobe, Dropbox, WordPress, and Yahoo. Those with some of the lowest ratings include Verizon with just two stars, Microsoft and Google which both earned three, and AT&T and WhatsApp, the only companies on the list to get just one.
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