We’ve just released some new research conducted for Microsoft by Cross-Tab Marketing Services & Telecommunications Research Group. The survey of 505 parents of 5-18 year-olds, and 495 educators from middle, junior and high schools in the U.S...

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...

The Microsoft Security Development Lifecycle (SDL) team has released a new Quick Security Reference white paper addressing “ Exposure of Sensitive Information .” The Exposure of Sensitive Information paper is intended to help information professionals...

Brendon Lynch, Chief Privacy Officer at Microsoft writes on the Microsoft On the Issues Blog: New technology, powerful handheld computing devices, and inexpensive data storage have enabled a wide array of online services that help people connect, collaborate...

Brad Smith, Senior Vice President and General Counsel for Microsoft has a post today on the Microsoft on the Issues blog on “Fostering the Next Phase of Cloud Computing.” Microsoft also released a white paper, “ Privacy and Data Access...

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...

Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE ...

Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE ...

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

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

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

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

Richard Boscovich, Senior Attorney, Microsoft Digital Crimes Unit, writes on the Microsoft on the Issues Blog : What if one out of every four cups of coffee you purchased turned out to be an empty cup? You’d quickly switch to another coffee shop...

Posted by Julie Inman-Grant, Director, Privacy and Internet Safety Outreach, Trustworthy Computing on the Microsoft on the Issues Blog : The explosive growth of cloud computing services and Internet-connected mobile devices is creating exciting opportunities...

Posted by Mike Hintze Associate General Counsel, Legal & Corporate Affairs, on the Microsoft on the Issues Blog : Today, we submitted comments on the Federal Trade Commission’s preliminary staff report on consumer privacy, “ Protecting...

We just added written a new two-page backgrounder document for our Trustworthy Computing Policymakers site on cyberbullying . The backgrounder describes the problem of cyberbullying, then outlines Microsoft’s efforts to combat cyberbullying, including...

We just added written a new two-page backgrounder document for our Trustworthy Computing Policymakers site on Privacy by Design . "Privacy by Design" has become a popular term in the privacy community, but it means different things to different people...

The Windows Live has released a new feature in Hotmail that can help enhance privacy for some Hotmail users. Dharmesh Mehta, Director, Windows Live Product Management, describes the new feature on the Windows Live Blog : There are times when you...

Posted by Jacqueline Beauchere Director, Trustworthy Computing Communications – Privacy & Online Safety Today is international Safer Internet Day (SID), an annual event dedicated to promoting responsible use of the Internet and mobile technology...

In conjunction with Safer Internet Day , Microsoft today released a survey of the perceptions and behaviors of gamers and parents of gamers . Cross Tab Marketing conducted the survey of 300 gamers aged 18-24 and 300 parents of gamers aged four and above...

The annual RSA Conference in San Francisco is the security industry’s biggest event of the year. This year’s RSA features more privacy-related sessions than ever, including sessions titled “Privacy in the Cloud: What is it? Do We Have...

Ziad Ismail writes on the Internet Explorer Blog: Today, the W3C formally created a working group to focus on consumer privacy on the Internet. Internet Explorer 9 was built with a focus on consumer privacy. As Dean Hachamovitch explained in the...

The Week in Online Safety, September 12, 2011 A weekly global roundup of online safetynews, policy developments, research, and influence News U.S.- Figuring Out How Children Learn With Technology , The New York Times , Sep. 8, 2011 E.U.- PEGI widens...