Check the full results.[0] Mozilla ranked below AT&T, who had the iPad leak, below HP, Amazon, Microsoft, IBM, eBay, Verizon, WebMD, etc.
They seem to have 'won' their category through being mis-categorized as 'Internet and Social Media', where they compete against Facebook and Twitter.
In terms of software vendors, they are outranked by most of the big names - only Google aren't mentioned.
Ranking behind that long list of companies, and only having to beat Twitter and Facebook on privacy issues is not a big win.
Edit: Also the source of this survey is very vague. It looks like a lobby/industry group who do nothing but put out surveys. No transparency on who the people behind it are, who makes up the board or how they are funded. From the website[1]:
Members of the RIM Council represent a cross-section of Fortune 500 companies and are champions of privacy and data protection in their organizations.
Interesting. So which companies exactly[2]?
RIM Council activities operate under strict confidentiality. Sponsorship revenues from participating Council companies provide funding for our core activities
It should be noted that this was a web-based survey, not a ranking by security audits.
> Our Web-based research study asked respondents to name up to five companies in 25 different
industries they believe to be the most trusted for protecting the privacy of their personal
information [0]
It's not terribly surprising that, given only five choices, more people chose some of the most well-known corporations in the world rather than the relatively PR-challenged Mozilla.
True. Trustworthiness is probably not a good word. What I meant was that trustworthiness could be construed as a objective measure (such as that reached by diligent security and privacy experts), while whether or not you actually trust someone is basically a feeling. Maybe "Fitness to be trusted" is a better term?
Your intended meaning was very clear since you used parenthesized qualifiers. IMO any argument on your usage is pedantic at best, but I would have put it as perceived and empirical/actual trustworthiness.
They seem to have 'won' their category through being mis-categorized as 'Internet and Social Media', where they compete against Facebook and Twitter.
In terms of software vendors, they are outranked by most of the big names - only Google aren't mentioned.
Ranking behind that long list of companies, and only having to beat Twitter and Facebook on privacy issues is not a big win.
Edit: Also the source of this survey is very vague. It looks like a lobby/industry group who do nothing but put out surveys. No transparency on who the people behind it are, who makes up the board or how they are funded. From the website[1]:
Members of the RIM Council represent a cross-section of Fortune 500 companies and are champions of privacy and data protection in their organizations.
Interesting. So which companies exactly[2]?
RIM Council activities operate under strict confidentiality. Sponsorship revenues from participating Council companies provide funding for our core activities
Oh, right.
[0] http://www.prweb.com/releases/2013/1/prweb10363796.htm
[1] http://www.ponemon.org/
[2] http://www.ponemon.org/rim-council