{UAH} Public Report on the Independent Assessment Process for Google, Microsoft, and Yahoo

This is the public report on the independent assessments of the Global Network Initiative's (GNI) founding companies: Google, Microsoft and Yahoo. It also includes the first determination by GNI's Board of the three companies' compliance with the GNI Principles on Freedom of Expression and Privacy.

The assessments focus on how companies respond to government requests implicating freedom of expression or privacy rights, looking at a selection of cases arising out of government demands from July 2011 through June 2013. Assessors asked the companies to provide cases based on criteria set out by the assessors, informed by consultation with GNI's non--‐company participants and independent research. The objective was to select a range of cases that were salient to each company's business model, operating environments, and particular human rights risk profile.

Link:http://globalnetworkinitiative.org/sites/default/files/GNI%20Assessments%20Public%20Report.pdf

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