Well, while Google is described as having "entrenched hostility to privacy", LJ is "generally privacy aware", the second best category. No sites at all were described as "privacy-friendly and privacy enhancing", which was the best, so not a bad result, all told.
From A Race to the Bottom: Privacy Ranking of Internet Service Companies
From A Race to the Bottom: Privacy Ranking of Internet Service Companies
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Date: June 11th, 2007 12:03 pm (UTC)From:no subject
Date: June 11th, 2007 10:02 pm (UTC)From:no subject
Date: June 11th, 2007 01:27 pm (UTC)From:Yahoo! and AOL scored as "Substantial Threats," and Microsoft scored as "Serious Lapses." Why does that not surprise me? XD
But I was surprised by MySpace's score, "Notable Lapses." I thought it'd be down further than that. =P
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Date: June 11th, 2007 02:59 pm (UTC)From:What's more, the ubiquitious spread and access of IT is such that even if we voluntarily switch off and choose to drop off the Net, we are still traced.
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Date: June 12th, 2007 02:38 pm (UTC)From:-- tom