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The problem with this list is that I can't tell if the starred company ALWAYS does the relevant action, or HAS done the relevant action at times. Does Google always tell users about govt requests for data? Or does Google sometimes tell users about govt requests for data? Because recent revelations indicated the government could retrieve their data without Google even being involved in each transaction, and they were legally barred from revealing fine-grained details about requests. But they did publicly oppose that policy after the fact and fought (or at least appeared to) the policy after it was revealed. So they get a star in that category now?

It's a bit like charting a flip-flopping political candidate's stances on issues. Does candidate X support issue Y? Yes! Does candidate X oppose issue Y? ... yes!



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