In what is good news for citizens of foreign countries with debatable human rights, Internet bigshots Google, Yahoo and Microsoft have agreed to a common set of principles guiding how and how much they share users’ information they share with such governments.
In addition to limiting info sharing, they’ve also agreed to look into a country’s human rights status before engaging in or furthering business in that country.
This is the result of work not only amongst themselves, but with human rights organizations over the past 2 years.