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EU looks at MS Passport for privacy infringement | |
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| Time: 16:35 EST/21:35 GMT | News Source: The Register | Posted By: Alex Harris | ||
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Microsoft's problems with Brussels have been compounded by news that the European Commission is investigating whether Passport is compatible with European data protection law. European law is substantially tougher than the US equivalent in this area, and Microsoft's record on database control is somewhat patchy, so it wouldn't be a big surprise if the Commission decided there was a problem here. The news of the investigation came in a letter to Netherlands European Parliament member Erik Meijer, who had raised numerous objections to Passport, and accused Microsoft of "surreptitiously" passing on registration information to "unknown parties." His view that Hotmail addresses are a particular example of this may have some resonance with spam-plagued Hotmail users. | ||
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| #1 By 20 (24.243.51.87) at 5/24/2002 5:57:49 PM |
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Man, I don't know where to start. From pinko europeans, to the Register, to the stupid attempt to correlate Hotmail to Passport...
For the more intelligent of the crowd, Hotmail is a free service and part of that free service is that your email will be sold so that MS can recoup some of the costs in providing that free service. Passport is completely different and is designed to be private. Of course, you'd never know that from reading The Register. |
| #2 By 135 (208.50.201.48) at 5/25/2002 1:44:39 AM |
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I'm actually shocked that Europeans care about privacy. When I was in London there were television cameras on every intersection.
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