Today, I’m happy to announce we are releasing Building Global Trust Online Volume 2: Policymaker Guide to Privacy, Safety, and Security at the International Association of Privacy Professionals (IAPP) Global Privacy Summit in Washington, D.C. Complimentary...

Peter Cullen , Chief Privacy Strategist, Microsoft, writes on the Trustworthy Computing Blog : Over the past several months, we’ve been convening discussions with some of the world’s foremost privacy thinkers, including representatives...

Tim Rains , Director, Trustworthy Computing writes on the Microsoft Trustworthy Computing Blog : It goes without saying that the physical security of the data centers where cloud services are hosted is a very important aspect of security to all...

Steven Sinofsky, President, Windows and Windows Live Division writes on the Building Windows Blog : O ne of the intrinsic capabilities of Windows 8 is the ability to use multiple accounts on any PC. This makes it much easier for parents to use tools...

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...

Tomorrow marks the 4th annual Data Privacy Day (or ‘Data Protection Day’ in Europe) and Microsoft will be joining consumers, governments and organizations at events held in San Francisco , Washington D.C . and Brussels to support the increased...

In response to recent attention on "supercookies" in the media, we wanted to share more detail on the immediate action we took to address this issue, as well as affirm our commitment to the privacy of our customers. According to researchers, including...

From the Security Tips Blog : Last week we released the newest version of the Microsoft web browser, Internet Explorer 9 . With this new version we also introduce the Add-on Performance Advisor which helps keep you safe from add-ons that might slow...

Updated 9:14 A.M. 8/2/2011 Microsoft released a change to its geographic location positioning service on July 30, 2011, which addresses an issue highlighted in Elie Bursztein's blog on July 29, 2011. This change adds improved filtering to validate...

Hi, Brendon Lynch here…. Today is an exciting day for privacy and Trustworthy Computing at Microsoft. One of the main objectives of Microsoft’s privacy strategy is to provide our customers with more control over the collection and use of their personal...

Brendon Lynch here. Today we released a new position paper, Privacy in the Cloud Computing Era: A Microsoft Perspective . This new paper discusses how Microsoft is approaching privacy as it relates to cloud computing. We wrote this paper based...

Microsoft recently released a number of upgrades to our file storing and sharing service, SkyDrive.com. A lengthy blog post by Omar Shahine on the Inside Windows Live blog describes the changes, which include strong privacy protections to help prevent...

Here's an update from the Windows Live Group on integrating Windows Live ID with OpenID from the Windows Live blog: Many people have asked recently about the status of the Windows Live® ID community technology preview (CTP) OpenID endpoints, so...

Steven Sinofsky, President, Windows and Windows Live Division at Microsoft, writes on the Building Windows 8 blog about Signing in to Windows 8 with a Windows Live ID, including a section on "Privacy and Security" below: With Windows 8, we introduce...

From the Microsoft Malware Protection Center Blog : Almost a year ago , we started a project designed to monitor incoming attacks against a normal user on a day-to-day basis. We presented you with details about the geographical area from where the...

I recently contacted Sameer Hinduja, co-director of the Cyberbullying Research Center at Florida Atlantic University about cyberbullying statistics for countries outside the United States. The Cyberbullying Research Center and blog is terrific and unique...

Chris Jones, Microsoft Corporate Vice President, Windows Live, relates on the Windows Live Blog that customers who lost access to their hotmail inboxes have had access restored : Beginning on December 30th we had an issue with Windows Live Hotmail...

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...

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...

Monday, November 29 will be this year’s Cyber Monday , the Monday following the Friday after Thanksgiving Day, and the second busiest online shopping day of the year in the United States. Cyber Monday is also one of the busiest online shopping days...

This week Kim Howell , Director of Privacy Governance in the Microsoft Trustworthy Computing Group, and Ralph Hood Lead Program Manager for the Security Development Lifecycle (SDL) in Microsoft Trustworthy Computing Group. Participated in a podcast on...

In April, the Europe Commission group charged with providing advice to the EU and member states on the protection of personal data known as the Article 29 Working Party issued an opinion that asked search companies to evaluate their search anonymization...

Stephen L Rose writes on the Windows Team Blog : We’re just a couple days into TechEd North America in Orlando and already there’s a tremendous amount of excitement in the air, particularly around new information that we’re sharing...

Posted Monday, January 26, 2009 5:14 PM by Microsoft Privacy Team On Wednesday, Microsoft will join in celebrating Data Privacy Day/ Data Protection Day with a series of global events. In 2007, the Council of Europe established January 28 as " Data...

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...