I’ve been working really hard to research and rank messaging apps by their privacy. The more green boxes the better.

I plan to turn PrivacySpreadsheet.com into a place for privacy data on everything from cars to video games. It’s all open source too on GitHub.

Not trying to advertise, I just put a lot of time into researching all this, and I want to share it since I think others could benefit.

  • morras
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    10 months ago

    Cool stuff, thanks a lot for the time and effort, dear Internet stranger.

    I would have 2 comments on the content.

    1. You have an entry “has been audited” (or something similar, dont’ remember exact wording). I would split it, and include it in each section. Something like “all the claims of this section have been audited?”

    It’s easy to claim that you conducted an “independant” audit, it’s another stuff to have it backing your commercial claims.

    1. The section “the app can hand to the police” should be renamed as “the company operating the app can hand to the police”. If the police is motivated enough, they can always get a hand on the device and access keys, so it’s better to make the assumption that the app itself will always give away your details. But in that scenario you are already in trouble.