Steve Aylward, General Manager, U.S. Health & Life Sciences writes on The Official Microsoft Blog : (Last in a series of Microsoft Blog posts about the cloud in vertical industries. Today: Healthcare.) Just about everyone I know in healthcare...

Fred Humphries, Managing Director, U.S. Government Affairs writes on the Microsoft on the Issues Blog: Last night, an important audience experienced Microsoft’s commitment to ensuring that children use digital media and video games in safer...

Angus Logan on the Windows Live Blog writes : Last week Omar Shahine blogged about our new privacy features in Windows Live , where we’ve made some improvements that we hope you will appreciate and find both powerful and easy to use. We also...

Angus Logan writes on the Windows Live Blog : There are over 500 million Windows Live IDs that are used every month. That is a lot of users who can sign into web sites. In addition to base level authentication you can also pre-fill registration forms...

Marcelle Amelia writes on the Security Tips & Talk Blog : We recently received an email that provided a great example of the tools in a cyberscammer's toolbelt. Here's the email. Can you spot the signs of a scam? Scroll down to read more. ...

The report understands the spectrum of use cases and specifically calls out the need for identity solutions to be privacy enhancing and voluntary for the public ...read more

The company says it may now collect, use, transfer, and disclose our iPhone, iPad or computer identifier and location for any purpose if we opt into iTunes. ...read more

Tiny RFID tags used to track movements of bees ...read more

Everything copied is recorded to hard disk and can be extracted by anyone with access to the machine and some readily available software ...read more

Google says the user’s device sends a request to its location server with a list of all MAC addresses currently visible to it. Does that include yours? ...read more

There is a difference between understanding something theoretically and right in the gut. ...read more

From the Windows Live Blog : by Omar Shahine A few months ago I authored a post that sets the context for some of the privacy discussion that’s currently happening, and how we think about privacy in Windows Live. This...

Mapping the attendees at a conference to home addresses even when they’ve never consented to any such tracking is not going to be hard if you’ve gone to the trouble of scanning every street in every city in the country. ...read more

Posted by Nancy Anderson Corporate Vice President and Deputy General Counsel on the Microsoft on the Issues Blog Today in Washington, DC, the National Cyber-Forensics and Training Alliance ( NCFTA ) and other leading industry and consumer protection organizations...

Google knew about the collection of MAC addresses, and has never said otherwise or stated that their collection of these addresses was done accidently. ...read more

§ 3121. General prohibition on pen register and trap and trace device use; exception ...read more

Posted by Peter Cullen, Chief Privacy Strategist from the Microsoft on the Issues Blog : I have been actively engaged in privacy issues for over a decade, first at the Royal Bank of Canada and now as Chief Privacy Strategist for Microsoft since 2003...

Reposted from the Microsoft on the Issues blog : Posted by Caroline Curtin Policy Counsel, U.S. Government Affairs Caroline Curtin A broad-based group representing the technology industry, public interest groups, and the federal government...

Conor: Google has clearly stepped into the arena of doing something that could be detrimental to the user's privacy ...read more

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49% of testers said privacy and security concerns were the top reason they don’t use check-in services more often ...read more

Gartner: Identity management projects rank first in the top five priorities for IT's security spending. ...read more

Simply untrue: "If you hide in Latitude, we don't store your location." ...read more

The report indicates Google has been purposely collecting a lot of information its defenders couldn't have imagined. ...read more

Google's new report on its activities states, "All available MAC addresses are... written to disk for frames transmitted over both encrypted and unencrypted wireless networks." ...read more