A Comparative Benchmark Study on the Privacy of Internet Services

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produced by the students of Prof. Sarah Spiekermann’s Privacy & Security Master Class (Winter Semester 2017/2018); Institute for MIS @WU Vienna in co-operation with the Privacy & Sustainable Computing Lab

 

25 online services are benchmarked as to their privacy friendliness; including Facebook, What‘sApp, Viber, Twitter, Instagram, GoogleMaps, Gmail, etc.

Examples are given on why you should care to regain control over your data

Many practical tips by the students themselves

With a forward by Jan Philipp Albrecht (European Parliament, Green Party)

Download it <here> for free

 

„I hope that efforts like this will help to inspire the online service market to improve their privacy proposition and I also want to encourage citizens to continue a bottom-up engagement of this type to raise privacy awareness among the general public“ (Jan Philipp Albrecht, Jan 2018)

 

Source https://www.wu.ac.at/ec/projects/privacy-brochure-a-benchmark-study/