Last week, Scott Charney, corporate vice president for Microsoft Trustworthy Computing, gave a keynote address at the RSA Conference in San Francisco about progress Microsoft has made on the company’s End to End Trust vision for a safer, more trusted...

The International Association of Privacy Professionals (IAPP) turns ten years old today. In conjunction with the tenth anniversary, the IAPP has released a white paper on the future of the privacy profession, entitled “ A Call for Agility: The Next Generation...

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...

Microsoft has created a series of videos featuring real Microsoft parents. In How to use Parental Controls in Windows , a father of three busy boys shows you what happened when he left them alone with the Sesame Street website and how he helps prevent...

From the Microsoft Security Tips Blog : The Kentucky Department of Education announced today that it is moving to live@edu , the cloud-based education system from Microsoft. This is Microsoft’s largest deployment to cloud services, involving...

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...

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...

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

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

But the problem of network addresses is "really hairy when dealing with a high mobility environment" ...read more

Even many experts don't understand that with network encryption enabled, the sender's and recipient's MAC address are in the clear. ...read more

All the brooms have started dancing. I wonder if Mickey will get out of this one? ...read more

Some comments from readers ...read more

Collection of the MAC addresses of phones and laptops is especially worrisome ...read more

What the *&#$#&*^$ is going on with encrypting WIFI and not encrypting the MAC addresses? ...read more

Once you have snooped peoples' MAC addresses, and put them into a database linking them to a street address, you have dramatically changed the way network identifiers work. ...read more

It is now categorically clear that Google is mapping client devices like phones and laptops with their Street View cars, and taking precise measurements of their placement within peoples' houses and businesses. ...read more

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