AT&T and WhatsApp stung with lowest scores in EFF's data safety report

Dropbox, Apple, and Yahoo are among the companies given top marks in the Electronic Frontier Foundation's (EFF) annual report on data collection practices, while WhatsApp and AT&T received joint-lowest scores. The EFF's "Who Has Your Back?" report awards tech companies stars based on how they handle government requests for data. The EFF's five criteria for companies include informing users about government requests before the data is handed over; publicly disclosing how long they record information that isn't accessible to the user; and reporting how often governments seek the removal of user content or accounts.

Large telecoms are among the worst at protecting data from requests

The data safety report, now in its fifth year, awarded...

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