Terry Olaes
I Used to be the [H] News Guy
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Wired took a look at the privacy scorecard just released by the Electronic Frontier Foundation. Google, which had a perfect score in 2014, slipped a bit while the worst offenders were WhatsApp, AT&T, and Verizon. I'll give you a moment to clear the shock from your faces.
...Given Googleís past leadership in fighting government data requests and the enormous cache of information the company collects on its users, the companyís behavior is ìdisappointing,î says EFF staff attorney Nate Cardozo, who worked on the study. ìWe feel confident that companies can always be doing more, and we like to reward companies for leading the pack,î says Cardozo. In at least two categories of privacy protection, ìGoogleís no longer there.î