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  • Blog Post: Microsoft Can Help You Manage Your Online Information

    David Burt
    Brendon Lynch , Chief Privacy Officer, Microsoft writes on the Trustworthy Computing Blog : Yesterday morning I read an article in The New York Times that described “ How to Muddy Your Tracks on the Internet .” The article gives consumers some suggestions for addressing the complicated...
    on 4 May 2012

  • Blog Post: Microsoft Data Privacy Day Event in San Francisco Tomorrow

    David Burt
    Tomorrow Microsoft will mark the annual observance of Data Privacy Day , (also known as Data Protection Day) by participating in a panel in San Francisco with the Churchill Club. The panel will feature Jules Cohen, Director of Online Privacy, Microsoft. See details of the event at the Churchill Club...
    on 23 Jan 2012

  • Blog Post: Online privacy, Tracking, and IE8’s InPrivate Filtering

    David Burt
    Dean Hachamovitch, Microsoft General Manager for Interent Explorer writes on the Interent Explorer Blog : Online privacy and tracking have been in several news articles and public hearings lately. The recent attention has been on how visiting one site shares information with many sites, and how those...
    on 4 Aug 2010

  • Blog Post: Privacy & Identity Theft Conference

    David Burt
    I recently delivered a keynote address at the Privacy & Identity Theft Conference in Vancouver, Canada. My keynote was entitled, "The Big Picture: Defining and Redefining Identity Fraud." Below is the major portion of my keynote, along with the relevant slides here in a pdf . At the time it...
    on 23 Dec 2008

  • Blog Post: Advancing Security and Transparency in Online Advertising

    David Burt
    Posted by Mike Hintze Associate General Counsel, on the Microsoft on the Issues blog : I wanted to take a moment to highlight an important advance in protecting consumers online. The Self-Regulatory Principles For Online Behavioral Advertising announced today require online advertisers and Web...
    on 8 Jul 2009

  • Blog Post: What does a MAC address tell you?

    Anonymous Anonymous
    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
    on 17 Jun 2010

  • Blog Post: The Week in Privacy and Online Safety, October 1, 2012

    David Burt
    The Week in Privacy and Online Safety, October 1, 2012 A weekly global roundup of online safety news, policy developments, research, and influence General Online Privacy Opinion (U.S.) - Privacy Conscious Europe is Leading the Cloud Computing Charge , Data Governance Law , Sep. 28, 2012 News (U.S...
    on 3 Oct 2012

  • Blog Post: Microsoft Privacy Profiles: Dominik Stockem of Microsoft Germany Helps Set Data Protection Requirements

    David Burt
    Here’s the third in our series of privacy profiles at Microsoft. As the privacy officer for the German subsidiary of Microsoft, Dominik Stockem plays a key role in addressing data protection issues and helping Microsoft to develop privacy standards that often have a global impact. Read the entire...
    on 27 Sep 2011

  • Blog Post: The Week in Privacy and Online Safety, June 25, 2012

    David Burt
    The Week in Privacy and Online Safety, June 25, 2012 A weekly global roundup of online safety news, policy developments, research, and influence General Online Privacy News (E.U.) - Privacy Laws Turn Europe into Economic Laboratory , MIT Technology Review, June 20, 2012 News (U.S.) - Facial recognition...
    on 26 Jun 2012

  • Blog Post: Talking Cloud Privacy in Washington, D.C.

    David Burt
    Susie Adams, Chief Technology Officer, Microsoft Federal, writes on the Microsoft on the Issues Blog : Greater adoption of cloud computing is considered an inevitable trend by regulators and lawmakers from both sides of the political aisle, according to my fellow panelists at Tuesday’s “...
    on 22 Nov 2011

  • Blog Post: Location and Privacy: Where are we headed on Data Privacy Day?

    David Burt
    Brendon Lynch, Chief Privacy Officer, Microsoft writes on the Microsoft on the Issues blog : Technologies and services that track, analyze and share individuals’ movements have proliferated in recent years. With more and more people connecting to the Internet through mobile devices, and with...
    on 27 Jan 2011

  • Blog Post: Hotmail declares war on graymail

    David Burt
    Dick Craddock writes on the Inside Windows Live Blog: In previous posts on our blog, we talked about how we’ve reduced true spam in the inbox to under 3% using SmartScreen™ filtering. But we realized that getting rid of true spam wasn’t enough, because 75% of the email messages that...
    on 4 Oct 2011

  • Blog Post: What harm can possibly come from a MAC address?

    Anonymous Anonymous
    What are the implciations of living in a world where it is legal and socially acceptable to drive up and down the streets recording people's MAC addresses and other network traffic? ...read more
    on 6 Jun 2010

  • Blog Post: Privacy is Not Dead

    David Burt
    Omar Shahine, Lead Program Manager on the Windows Live Social Networking team writes on the Windows Blog : In the past six months we’ve seen some interesting happenings in the privacy world. Facebook announced and implemented a sweeping set of privacy changes and continues to evolve their privacy...
    on 6 Apr 2010

  • Blog Post: Microsoft Privacy Profile: Robert Gratchner,

    David Burt
    Here's the first in a series of profiles of privacy managers at Microsoft. Robert Gratchner is director of privacy and online safety supporting the advertising business group at Microsoft. Click here to read the entire profile in a 2 page pdf:
    on 1 Sep 2011

  • Blog Post: Windows Live Messenger Connect – Making your data more portable while retaining control over its use

    David Burt
    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 recently announced Windows Live Messenger Connect...
    on 29 Jun 2010

  • Blog Post: Apple giving out your iPhone fingerprints and location

    David Burt
    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
    on 26 Jun 2010

  • Blog Post: Take the Microsoft Computing Safety Index

    David Burt
    Last month, we released the Microsoft Computing Safety Index (MCSI) , a scoring system of more than 20 steps individuals can take to help protect themselves online. The MCSI tallies points for basic and advanced computer security behaviors such as: updating antivirus software regularly; limiting information...
    on 2 Nov 2011

  • Blog Post: Digital copiers - a privacy and security timebomb

    Anonymous Anonymous
    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
    on 21 Jun 2010

  • Blog Post: The Week in Privacy and Online Safety, July 30, 2012

    David Burt
    The Week in Privacy and Online Safety, July 30, 2012 A weekly global roundup of online safety news, policy developments, research, and influence General Online Privacy News (U.S.) - MAC and IP Addresses: Personal Information? , Data Governance Law , July 24, 2012 News (U.S.) - US groups: Foreign...
    on 30 Jul 2012

  • Blog Post: The Week in Privacy and Online Safety, May 28, 2012

    David Burt
    The Week in Privacy and Online Safety, May 28, 2012 A weekly global roundup of online safety news, policy developments, research, and influence General Online Privacy Advocates (U.S.) – Disappearing Phone Booths: Privacy in the Digital Age , Erica Newland, CDT , May 2012 News (U.S.) - Troves...
    on 28 May 2012

  • Blog Post: Microsoft Announces New “Tracking Protection” Feature for Internet Explorer Nine

    David Burt
    A major announcement today from the IE blog : Today, consumers have very little awareness or control over who can track their online activity. Much has been written about this topic. With the release candidate: 1. IE9 will offer consumers a new opt-in mechanism (“Tracking Protection”...
    on 7 Dec 2010

  • Blog Post: The Week in Privacy and Online Safety, September 3, 2012

    David Burt
    The Week in Privacy and Online Safety, September 3, 2012 A weekly global roundup of online safety news, policy developments, research, and influence General Online Privacy News (U.S.) - Amazon Hires Chief Privacy Counsel , The Wall Street Journal , Aug. 31, 2012 News (U.K.) - Chris Soghoian, delights...
    on 6 Sep 2012

  • Blog Post: The Week in Privacy and Online Safety, January 14, 2013

    David Burt
    The Week in Privacy and Online Safety, January 14, 2013 A weekly global roundup of online safety news, policy developments, research, and influence General Online Privacy News (U.S.) - How Generation Y really feels about online privacy , CNET, Jan.11, 2013 News (U.S.) - Cyberlaw Predictions: The Privacy...
    on 15 Jan 2013

  • Blog Post: Cloud computing in healthcare – private, public, or somewhere in between

    David Burt
    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 is asking the same question: “What can cloud...
    on 30 Jun 2010