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World’s biggest tech companies get failing grade on data-privacy rights

Posted on November 3, 2015June 26, 2025 by Dissent

Sam Thielman reports:

The world’s top tech companies are failing when it comes to privacy and freedom of expression, according to the most comprehensive assessment to date of their user agreement policies.

Tech firms including US giants Facebook, Google and Microsoft, Europe’s top mobile companies Vodafone and Orange, China’s Tencent, and South Korea’s Daum Kakao (which makes the 140 million-user-strong KakaoTalk) were among the public companies surveyed in an ongoing project called Ranking Digital Rights.

Read more on The Guardian.

Related:  Ranking Digital Rights 2015 Corporate Accountability Index.

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