Privacy is on the minds of tech companies and their customers thanks to a steady stream of data breaches, disclosures about NSA mass surveillance, and government pressure for encryption backdoors. The Electronic Frontier Foundation released its fifth annual “Who Has Your Back?” privacy report on Wednesday, ranking top tech companies on how well they do at “protecting your data from government requests.”

Nine tech companies received a perfect 5-star ranking: Apple, Yahoo, Adobe, Dropbox, Wickr, Wikimedia, WordPress, CREDO and Sonic. Meanwhile, WhatsApp and AT&T received the lowest score, each only fulfilling a single EFF privacy criteria. Other tech giants, like Amazon, Google, LinkedIn and Snapchat fell somewhere in the middle, and nearly all the companies opposed encryption back doors...