Brendon Lynch, Chief Privacy Officer at Microsoft responds to the release of today's privacy report from the U.S. Federal Trade Commission on the Microsoft on the Issues Blog : The Federal Trade Commission today released a major report on consumer...

Dan Nicolescu from the Microsoft Malware Protection Center writes on the MMPC Threat Research & Response blog : This morning my Facebook email address was invaded with spam (scam-spam as I call it) from people in my friends list with subject titles...

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 Week in Privacy and Online Safety, November 12, 2012 A weekly global roundup of online safety news, policy developments, research, and influence General Online Privacy News (U.S.) - Megaupload Case Has Far-Reaching Implications for Cloud-Data Ownership...

Today Microsoft released a new whitepaper that I authored for the company titled “Fostering Digital Citizenship,” along with a new Microsoft study about posting personal information online, and an Online Reputation Guide for teens. Fostering...

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...

From the Microsoft.com/Security website, a revised set of recommendations for parents on mobile phone safety : Mobile phone safety for kids Mobile phones range from the most basic, like those for younger children that can place calls only to restricted...

The Week in Privacy and Online Safety, September 24, 2012 A weekly global roundup of online safety news, policy developments, research, and influence General Online Privacy Research (U.S.) - Reverse Engineering Informational Privacy Law , Michael Birnhack...

I just finished a new two-page Issue Backgrounder on Microsoft’s revised privacy statements. This backgrounder covers the reasons for our change in the structure of our privacy statements, and what it means for our customers. This is our 44th issue...

Kim Cameron, the Chief Architect of Identity in the Identity and Security Division at Microsoft writes on his Identity Blog: Earlier this week I presented the Identity Keynote at the Microsoft Professional Developers Conference (PDC) in LA. The...

Guest Blog Post from Dan Schutzer, CTO Financial Services Technology Group , Division of the Financial Services Roundtable: The issue of identity impersonation and identity-related crimes has been a long-standing issue dating back before the dawn of...

From the Microsoft Windows Blog : Yesterday was what is known as “Cyber Monday,” which is the first Monday after Black Friday every year and is one of the top online shopping days here in the United States. Cyber Monday is when people move to the...

We recently received several e-mails to this blog like this: Why can I not get past the privacy Center screen so I can get to the settings? I want to disable this program. It is useless and it will not let me use my computer. It turns out there...

Today on the Microsoft on the Issues Blog : Posted by Scott Charney Corporate Vice President, Trustworthy Computing As I blogged last month , the increasing quantity and sophistication of cyber attacks requires a comprehensive and coordinated strategy...

Reid Kuhn, Partner Group Program Manager, Windows Phone Engineering Team writes on the Microsoft on the Issues Blog: There continues to be a high level of public interest in how and why companies collect Wi-Fi access point information. Windows Phone...

Yesterday the Bing team announced new features in Bing that offer a more personalized search for customers by using location data as well as search history, on the official Bing blog : For years people have talked about personalized search as the...

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...

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's Kim Cameron writes on his Identity Blog : Using Consumer Identities for Business Interactions Posted on Saturday 10 July 2010 Mike Jones writes about an “identity mashup” that drives home a really important lesson:...

Posted by Brendon Lynch , Chief Privacy Officer and Senior Director, Trustworthy Computing on the Microsoft on the Issues Blog : Last night, Microsoft was honored to accept the 2010 HP-IAPP Privacy Innovation Award for Technology . The award was presented...

Marcelle Amelia writes on the Security Tips & Talk Blog : We recently received an email that provided a great example of the tools in a cyberscammer's toolbelt. Here's the email. Can you spot the signs of a scam? Scroll down to read more. ...

The New York Times quotes Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg at the Web 2.0 Summit last week: I would expect that next year, people will share twice as much information as they share this year, and next year, they will be sharing twice as much as...

Last week, Microsoft announced on the Bing blog that Bing would be incorporating Twitter search results : Today at Web 2.0 we announced that working with those clever birds over at Twitter, we now have access to the entire public Twitter feed and have...

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...

Two particularly noteworthy events happened this week around the issue of protecting personal information. First, Microsoft released the latest Security Intelligence Report, which provides a detailed analysis of current threats to your computer and...