Microsoft, Yahoo! and Google sign privacy pact, vow to fight for human rights

Michael Holloway, 30 October 2008

Microsoft, Yahoo! and Google have signed up to a privacy framework which orders them to challenge any government in the world over requests for private information if they believe the request breaks international human rights laws.

The three companies are amongst those who have signed up to the Global Network Initiative (GNI), an organisation formed to promote a set of principles by which its members agree to abide.

Source: Out-law