Human rights activists have called messengers, which “merge” user data to the authorities

Experts analyzed the data about the transparency of the interactions of companies with government

Internet companies WhatsApp and Twitter is the worst of all protect the data of users of their services from the authorities.

This is stated in the report of the human rights organization Electronic Frontier Foundation.

According to the report, the company WhatsApp, Twitter and Airbnb have received the lowest scores on the results of a study on the protection of the privacy of users to the authorities.

In particular, experts in the study analyzed data on transparency of the companies interact with the state, publishing reports on the number of requests from governments, to ban the transfer of personal data to third parties, etc.

The maximum number of points received Adobe, Dropbox, WordPress and Uber.

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According to human rights activists, WhatsApp does not inform users about requests from the authorities, nor does it guarantee protection from transmission of data to third parties. In addition, the messenger has no rules of validation requests of US intelligence.

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