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Microsoft's Privacy Czar on the "Trust Model" | |
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| Time: 00:00 EST/05:00 GMT | News Source: Business Week Online | Posted By: Todd Richardson | ||
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If you're concerned about privacy, you can't ignore Microsoft. The Colossus of Redmond is at the center of setting standards for the way information is used and shared online. Last year, it released a new version of its Internet Explorer browser embedded with the Platform for Privacy Preferences, a specification that enables the browser to automatically understand a Web site's privacy practices [see BW Online, 12/14/01, Microsoft's Cookie Monster]. Then in January, Bill Gates announced the Trustworthy Computing Initiative, a companywide effort to make Microsoft products more secure and privacy-friendly. Richard Purcell, Microsoft's director of corporate privacy, is the man charged with making it all happen. An avid rock climber, Purcell knows it won't be easy to scale privacy's rough terrain. It's all about trust, Purcell points out. And many consumers, it seems, don't completely trust Microsoft. Recently, I discussed with Purcell Microsoft's approach to protecting users' information. | ||
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| #1 By 20 (24.243.51.87) at 5/28/2002 12:49:31 AM |
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Hotmail is different than every other server. MS has said that you have no privacy on Hotmail, that's how they give it away for free. They're very up front about this.
They promise privacy on all or almost all of their other products (it's implied unless they specifically disclaim it like Hotmail) so privacy is a big concern for those products. Get a clue. |
| #2 By 20 (24.243.51.87) at 5/28/2002 3:08:12 PM |
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Ah, perhaps I'm wrong. I just accepted as fact that you have 0, none, zip, nada privacy while on Hotmail, other than, perhaps they don't read your email.
I don't know where I got this from, I seemed to remember reading something on their site that was basically "It's free, you have no rights" kinda thing and people just accepted that because it free. -d |
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