Online firms fail on privacy, data protection: survey


  • TECH
  • Thursday, 05 Nov 2015

Well done: Google got the highest score among the 16 Internet and telecom companies surveyed at 65%.

WASHINGTON: The world’s biggest Internet and telecom companies are falling short in protecting privacy and online freedom of expression, a study showed. 

The Ranking Digital Rights project’s first corporate accountability index based on more than two years of research gave a poor rating to most of the major online firms. 

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