I'd like to point out something related to what others have already said. First, they've pointed out the seemingly illogical picking of companies. Snapchat but not Instagram (maybe part of facebook?) and AT&T but not T-Mobile? etc.<p>Another issue here is that by looking at the past reports you see how quickly one company is the favorite and soon becomes the ugly step child. The columns with stars are also changing to what sound like very vague and lax requirements compared to the year before.<p>I didn't see any explanation there why. For instance they took out the "requires warrant" column. I wonder if companies are contributing to the EFF and so the EFF feels the pressure to make these companies look good in the face of this new Snowden era. For instance, isn't it great that Apple now has 5 stars as it's starting it's big "we're private" push while Google is now very low compared to previous years? And how about twitter? They used to be a poster child for good behavior as far as companies go.