WhatsApp has been criticized in the Electronic Frontier Foundation report for its failure to implement recommendations from the 2014 report, scoring 1/5 stars. Particular attention was paid to the following issues:
Industry-Accepted Best Practices. WhatsApp does not publicly require a warrant before giving content to law enforcement. WhatsApp does not publish a transparency report or a law enforcement guide.
Inform users about government data demands. WhatsApp does not promise to provide advance notice to users about government data demands.
Disclose data retention policies. WhatsApp does not publish information about its data retention policies, including retention of IP addresses and deleted content.
Disclose content removal requests. WhatsApp does not host content nor do we have reason to believe it receives account closure requests domestically, and thus this category is not applicable.
Conversely Dropbox, Yahoo and Wikipedia were commended for their efforts in safeguarding user data from government requests - all three scored 5 from 5 stars in the report. WhatsApp's parent company, Facebook, scored 4.
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