Microsoft insisted Tuesday that its .NET Passport service complied with European data protection laws, rejecting charges that it is "surreptitiously" collecting and passing on personal information about users. At a news conference, Microsoft's corporate privacy officer, Richard Purcell, compared the user authentication system to a doorman who checks IDs but has nothing further to do with what happens once a person enters a site. "These practices do indeed meet criteria" laid down under strict EU data protection laws, he said.
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