From the Bing Blog : You may have read our post last week where we talked about how Smart Motion Preview and SafeSearch work together. As we mentioned, Microsoft is never done when it comes to providing tools to help customers, whether they are...

Business Week has a story out this week about how a case involving a New Hampshire law barring data mining on drug prescription data, that could have a profound impact on data mining across industries: IMS Health ( RX ) has built a lucrative niche...

From Kim Cameron's blog : Today I am posting a new paper called, Proposal for a Common Identity Framework: A User-Centric Identity Metasystem . Good news: it doesn’t propose a new protocol! Instead, it attempts to crisply articulate the requirements...

The Bing team address concerns about the Bing SafeSearch settings on their blog: One important conversation going on right now is about unwanted adult video content within this feature. To start with, by default in Bing (and in Live Search before...

Kim Cameron,Chief Architect of Identity at Microsoft, writes on his Identity Blog : The recent European Identity Conference , hosted in Munich by the analyst firm Kuppinger Cole , had great content inspiring an ongoing stream of interesting conversations...

Posted by Scott Charney, on the Microsoft On the Issues Blog: Corporate Vice President, Trustworthy Computing Today I had the privilege of attending an event at the White House where President Barack Obama announced the results of the 60-day cybersecurity...

Frank Torres, Microsoft Director of Consumer Affairs blogs at the Microsoft on the Issues Blog : Posted by Frank Torres Director, Consumer Affairs Last month the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services sought public input on guidelines the...

Kim Cameron,Chief Architect of Identity at Microsoft, reports on a disturbing trend at a seminar on cloud computing from his IdentityBlog: A few weeks ago I spoke at a conference of CIOs, CSOs and IT Mandarins that - of course - also featured a...

Microsoft Associate General Counsel Tim Cranton tells us : There is news from Edinburgh today of guilty verdicts for leaders of the largest child pornography ring ever broken-up in Scotland. As the BBC News explains, a single image found on a computer...

Doug Leland, Microsoft General Manager, Identity & Security Division shares his thoughts on cloud computing security and privacy: Hi all – Doug Leland here, general manager of the Identity and Security Business Group. Today at the Microsoft Management...

Thursday April 23, 2009 Jeffrey Friedberg In his recent blog post, Scott Charney described End to End Trust, a vision for a safer, more trusted Internet. Core to the proposal of End to End Trust is the creation of a “trusted stack,” where security...

More on End to End Trust today at RSA the RSA Conference in San Francisco Scott Charney, Corporate Vice President for Trustworthy Computing, Microsoft, delivered his keynote speech, " End to End Trust': A Collaborative Effort ." The Microsoft End to End...

Next week is the big RSA Conference in San Francisco . Among the keynote speakers on April 21 will be Scott Charney, Corporate Vice President for Trustworthy Computing, Microsoft Corp. The RSA Conference programs provides an abstract of Charney's keynote...

Microsoft has just released the sixth edition of the Microsoft Security Intelligence Report (SIR). There's a ton of information in the 180 or so pages of the latest SIR on security trends, but probably the most interesting aspect of the report for those...

From the IE8 team : Over the last year, we’ve published two posts about how the IE8 SmartScreen ® filter helps to prevent phishing and malware attacks. In this post, I’d like to share some real-world data on the protection provided to IE8 pre...

From the Live blog : Identity & Safety : Microsoft are in a unique position to be running one of the largest services in the world, with over 500 million people signing in every month. Jorgen Thelin gave an overview of the different aspects...

At last week’s International Association of Privacy Professionals Summit , a big topic of discussion was cloud computing and privacy . A program on cloud computing privacy featuring representatives of Salesforce.com, Google, and IBM discussed the complex...

Last week at the International Association of Privacy Professionals summit in Washington, D.C. we released our Consumer Privacy Education Toolkit . Intended for public policy professionals, this toolkit contains a complete guide for how to conduct a local...

Next Week's International Association of Privacy Professionals Summit By Trevor Hughes , executive director, International Association of Privacy Professionals The enormous international focus on privacy is growing more urgent in the face of business...

From the Microsoft on the Issues Blog : Earlier today the Federal Trade Commission kicked off a two-day “ Fraud Forum ” in Washington, D.C., that is bringing together regulators, law enforcement officers, consumer advocates, academics and business...

The RSA Conference today announced the lineup of keynote speakers for the annual conference in San Francisco, April 21: Scott Charney, Corporate Vice President for Trustworthy Computing, Microsoft Corp. Trustworthy Computing (TwC) is Microsoft's...

From the Microsoft on the Issues blog today: This morning we announced a new collaboration with the Girl Scouts of the USA aimed at improving online safety. As families search for the best ways to protect their kids online, a big challenge is finding...

Elizabeth Grigg, Program Manager, Windows Live Family Safety on the Windows Live Family Safety blog : It was rewarding yesterday to see a discussion emerging from news articles on child safety. In Europe, MSN conducted a study of children’s habits...

Today, I testified before the Article 29 Working Party , the Europe Commission group charged with providing advice to the EU and member states on the protection of personal data. The Article 29 Working Party hearing examined the data anonymization practices...

The Windows Live team blogs about the latest privacy and safety features : Hi, I’m Jamie Cannon, a Product Manager on the Windows Live team. Part of my job is to help keep our customers safer & more secure from threats on the Internet. I want...