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The Digital Standard is an ambitious, community-led effort to build a framework to test and rate products and services on the basis of privacy, security, and data practices.
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Canary in the coal mine #146

Open harrywinner opened 4 years ago

harrywinner commented 4 years ago

Governance & Compliance (Are they good?)/Transparency/User notification about third-party requests for user information.yaml

One additional indicator: The company publicly and/or privately communicates the fact that it has not been compelled (by authorities) to divulge data on user(s). This allows said user(s) to infer from the eventual absence of such a communication that a request has been made (and potentially fulfilled), even if the provider cannot divulge that directly.