Apple earns five stars in this year’s Who Has Your Back report. This is Apple’s fifth year in the report, and it has adopted every best practice we’ve identified as part of this report. We commend Apple for its strong stance regarding user rights, transparency, and privacy.
Congrats Apple.
EFF’s evaluation of Google (three stars):
Google should take a stronger position in providing notice to users about government data requests after an emergency has ended or a gag has been lifted. Furthermore, Google should provide transparency into its data retention policies.
The ironic thing is that the EFF has refused to make their app available on iOS because “blah blah Apple closed blah blah.” Apparently it’s much more principled to have your app on Android where there are no barriers to unscrupulous developers writing apps that send all of your data to God knows where.