Amnesty International Ranks Eleven Companies on Encryption

In 2016, Amnesty International published a report ranking eleven technology companies on encryption and human rights.

Those companies were:

• Apple
• Blackberry
• Facebook
• Google
• Kakao Corporation
• LINE
• Microsoft
• Snapchat
• Telegram
• Tencent
• Viber Media

Amnesty wrote - "Encryption helps protect people’s human rights online. By rendering digital data unintelligible, encryption helps ensure that private information sent over the internet stays private. It also allows people to access and operate in safe online spaces where they can speak freely and express their ideas and opinions without fear. Encryption stops cybercriminals from stealing our personal information, and helps prevent unlawful government surveillance of our communications. It is particularly important for human rights defenders and journalists around the world - whether they are dissidents in China, Bahraini activists in exile abroad, or investigative journalists in Europe. A breach of their data security undermines their vital work, and could result in arrest and detention."

You can download a copy of the Amnesty International report here.

I recommend comparing the Amnesty International report with "Mind Your Data - A Guide to Regain Privacy from Wirtschaftsuniversität Wien"  that I wrote about in March 2018.