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I'm interested in why the EFF chose these companies to rate. For example, rating AT&T and Verizon but not Sprint and T-Mobile seems odd to me. Rating Snapchat but not Instagram almost makes sense becuase they're rating Facebook, but then they've rated WhatsApp separately.

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The ATT/VZW/Sprint/TM differentiation is weird, but Instagram versus Whatsapp doesn't seem strange... Instagram doesn't honestly seem like a hugely valuable target. That's not to say I'm comfortable with them giving up info freely, but I'd be much more concerned about my WhatsApp data being turned over than my Instagram data.

I'd rather lists like these not be polluted by things like that.

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