The report was compiled using data derived from public sources (newspaper articles, blog entries, submissions to government inquiries, privacy policies etc), information provided by present and former company staff, technical analysis and interviews with company representatives.
Interim results are available here in PDF format: Interim Rankings
PI is based in London, and has an office in Washington, D.C. Together with members in 40 countries, PI has conducted campaigns throughout the world on issues ranging from wiretapping and national security activities, to ID cards, video surveillance, data matching, police information systems and medical privacy, and works with a wide range of NGO’s, academic institutions and inter-governmental organizations.
Campaigning against corporate privacy practices, e.g. Amazon Identifying the problems in technology design, e.g.problems with advertising in Gmail Monitoring and campaigning against the disclosure of data from companies to governments, e.g. EU-US PNR, SWIFT, Telecommunications companies Founding and running the Big Brother Awards, now held annually in over 15 countries, that identify ‘worst corporate invaders’, Campaigning against bad practice in account management, for instance preventing users from deleting accounts, e.g. against Amazon and eBay Ranking countries for their privacy protection and surveillance levels, Building particularly from our work on companies’ practices on customer account management and our expertise developed in the country rankings we are now positioned to develop rankings for companies.
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