#4 Dropbox

Points: 5 out of 6

Requires a warrant for content; Tells users about government data requests; Publishes transparency reports; Publishes law enforcement guidelines; Fights for users’ privacy rights in Congress.

Dropbox is a file syncing and collaboration service that allows users to access and share their files on computers, phones, tablets, and the Dropbox website.

The Dropbox help center document, states that, “Nobody can see your private files in Dropbox unless you deliberately invite them or put them in your Public folder” and “Dropbox employees aren’t able to access user files, and when troubleshooting an account they only have access to file metadata (filenames, file sizes, and others, not the file contents).”

#3 Google

Points: 5 out of 6

Requires a warrant for content; Publishes transparency reports; Publishes law enforcement guidelines; Fights for users' privacy rights in courts; Fights for users’ privacy rights in Congress.

Google Trasperacny Report states, “Like other technology and communications companies, Google regularly receives requests from government agencies and courts around the world to remove content from our services or to review such content to determine if it should be removed for inconsistency with a product's community policies. In this report, we disclose the number of requests we receive from each government in six-month periods with certain limitations.”

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