World's biggest tech companies get failing grade on data-privacy rights…from me!

World’s biggest tech companies get failing grade on data-privacy rights…from me!
Jonathan M. Smith
Olga and Alberico Pompa Professor
University of Pennsylvania
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After a lifetime of saying tech companies suck, I’ve now helped make it official exactly how much they suck by spending three years assisting in designing and implementing a complex scoring system on human rights, free expression, and privacy.  Today those rankings have been released.  You can see the front-page The Guardian story here: http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/nov/03/data-protection-failure-google-facebook-ranking-digital-rights – or visit our site for more detail and interactive data: https://rankingdigitalrights.org/2015/11/03/index-now-online/