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Article

23 Jul 2009

Author:
Paul Jay, CBC News

Tech giants to be rated on human rights

A group of prominent Canadian researchers has launched an initiative to examine how closely companies like Google, Microsoft and Yahoo follow their own principles regarding freedom of expression and privacy...Citizen Lab director Ron Deibert said the focus of this summer's Global Network Initiative (GNI) Monitor would be to assess how these companies were doing in following their own principles...Deibert said...Nokia Siemens Networks would [also] be among the companies not associated with the GNI that they will be monitoring.