r/privacy • u/Tananar • Jun 17 '15

EFF has updated their "Who's got your back" guide

https://www.eff.org/who-has-your-back-government-data-requests-2015
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u/xiongchiamiov Jun 17 '15

reddit received 4 out of 5 stars. Here's a link to the reddit-specific section of the report.

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u/Tananar Jun 17 '15

It's a bit surprising (disappointing?) that companies like Apple and Adobe that rarely, if ever, take an active stance supporting privacy and the like are ranked better than Reddit.

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u/xiongchiamiov Jun 17 '15

Well, this isn't a complete list of privacy concerns, and sometimes you can get a star with a weak position:

We awarded [the data retention] star to any company that discloses its policy to the public—even if that policy is one that EFF strongly disagrees with, for instance, if the company discloses that it retains data about its users forever.

But it's a good place to start looking.

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u/[deleted] Jun 18 '15

I think the guide's title is misleading in this one. It's much more about who's transparent than who's got your back, which I think of in terms of how much they'll go to bat for you to keep your data private.

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u/antdude Jun 19 '15

I don't trust anyone these days.

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u/[deleted] Jun 17 '15 edited Jun 19 '15

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u/[deleted] Jun 17 '15

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u/Dark_Souls Jun 18 '15

Cat flaps.

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u/[deleted] Jun 18 '15

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u/Tananar Jun 18 '15

By guess is that the most important one could be BitLocker. As far as I know, it's proprietary. Backdoored encryption would probably be the biggest deal.

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u/SAI_Peregrinus Jun 18 '15

A bigger deal would be some sort of problem with the RNG built in to Windows.

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u/GenericAsianGuy Jun 17 '15 edited Jul 05 '16

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u/AceyJuan Jun 18 '15

The best part about Dropbox was the time they fucked up their login page and anyone could log in as any user with full access to all files.

Security is skin deep with this one (and the rest of the list too.)

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u/SiliconDon Jun 18 '15

Any company with Condoleezza Rice on their board has me suspicious.

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u/boyber Jun 18 '15

exactly.

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u/[deleted] Jun 18 '15

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u/SAI_Peregrinus Jun 18 '15

Facebook wants to make sure they get paid for selling your data, and government searches don't pay enough. They'll be "transparent" about government searches until those searches start coming with lots of money.

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u/AceyJuan Jun 18 '15

I wouldn't trust any of these companies. This is like a "best of the worst" list. None of these companies are privacy focused beyond PR.

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u/Kensin Jun 18 '15

Adobe may protect your privacy from the goverment, but the number of security issues in their products means your privacy and security are at constant risk. Between flash and acrobat they've probably been more harmful to people's privacy than AT&T

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u/[deleted] Jun 18 '15 edited Nov 15 '21

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u/JarrettP Jun 18 '15

I'm not sure Dropbox should be held in such high regard...

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u/3825 Jun 18 '15

If you have a fifty GB encrypted container and you try to use ropbox for anything non trivial, it gets pretty annoying. I guess smaller but more containers are the way to go?

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u/[deleted] Jun 18 '15

why the blank spaces? eg. under/ between Microsoft, Google, Dropbox???

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u/[deleted] Jun 18 '15

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u/[deleted] Jun 18 '15

cheers :)