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Statement by Peter Cullen on the Spanish Data Protection International Standards Proposal

Posted Thursday, October 29, 2009 5:11 PM by Microsoft Privacy Team
In the first week of November, hundreds of representatives from government, industry and civil society will be descending upon Madrid for the 31 st International Conference of Data Protection and Privacy Commissioners to discuss a range of issues related Read More...
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Bing Bringing Twitter Search to You – With Privacy Protected

Posted Monday, October 26, 2009 8:07 PM by Microsoft Privacy Team
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 Read More...
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Hats off to Congressman Boucher

Posted Monday, September 28, 2009 6:38 PM by Microsoft Privacy Team
Frank Torres, Director, Consumer Affairs writes on the Microsoft on the Issues blog : After years of vigorous debate, it looks like we are close to seeing the introduction of comprehensive federal legislation establishing privacy protections for Internet Read More...
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Bad Ad: Going After The Malvertising Threat

Posted Friday, September 18, 2009 12:11 AM by Microsoft Privacy Team
Posted by Tim Cranton, Associate General Counsel on the Microsoft on the Issues Blog: Today, Microsoft filed five civil lawsuits, the first of their kind against a nasty phenomenon known as malvertising. That’s the industry term for malicious online advertising. Read More...
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The Week in Privacy – September 4, 2009

Posted Saturday, September 05, 2009 1:03 AM by Microsoft Privacy Team
Privacy Advocates Push for New Legislation on Behavioral Targeting A group of privacy advocates and consumer groups asked Congress to pass comprehensive legislation restricting the practices of online behavioral targeting. The New York Times reports , Read More...
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The Week in Privacy – August 21, 2009

Posted Saturday, August 22, 2009 12:07 AM by Microsoft Privacy Team
Judge Orders Google to Reveals Blogger's Identity After Insulting Model Canadian model Liskula Cohen sued Google demanding to know the identity of an anonymous blogger on the Google site Blogger.com. The UK Telegraph reports that “In what may prove a Read More...
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The Week in Privacy – July 17, 2009

Posted Friday, July 17, 2009 11:45 PM by Microsoft Privacy Team
· Stolen Twitter Documents Released . Confidential business documents from the popular social media company Twitter, and leaked onto the web. The New York Times reported that “The breach raised red flags for individuals as well as businesses about the Read More...
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The Week in Privacy July 10, 2009

Posted Friday, July 10, 2009 10:24 PM by Microsoft Privacy Team
· US Advertising Industry Strengthens Privacy Standards . Microsoft joined a group of trade associations in announcing a new set of stronger set of “ Self-Regulatory Principles for Online Behavioral Advertising ,” as reported in The New York Times . Microsoft Read More...
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Advancing Security and Transparency in Online Advertising

Posted Tuesday, July 07, 2009 10:33 PM by Microsoft Privacy Team
Posted by Mike Hintze Associate General Counsel, on the Microsoft on the Issues blog : I wanted to take a moment to highlight an important advance in protecting consumers online. The Self-Regulatory Principles For Online Behavioral Advertising announced Read More...
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The Week in Privacy

Posted Saturday, June 20, 2009 12:01 AM by Microsoft Privacy Team
1. Behavioral Targeting before Congress. On Thursday, the House subcommittee on communication and consumer protection held a hearing on the data collection practices of Internet companies. The Wall Street Journal reports that, “Lawmakers in the House Read More...
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Data Mining May be Headed to the U.S. Supreme Court

Posted Friday, June 12, 2009 12:21 AM by Microsoft Privacy Team
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 collecting Read More...
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Data Privacy Day – Focus Group Findings

Posted Wednesday, January 28, 2009 3:39 PM by Microsoft Privacy Team
Today the United States, the European Union and Canada are celebrating Data Privacy Day, which is dedicated to educating people about online privacy protections. To commemorate the day, Microsoft commissioned focus group research examining consumer perceptions Read More...
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Methods Matter for Protecting Privacy Online

Posted Thursday, January 15, 2009 12:34 AM by Microsoft Privacy Team
Mike Hintze, Microsoft Associate General Counsel blogs from today's State of the Net Conference in Washington DC, where he spoke on a panel. Posted on the new Microsoft of the Issues blog : There’s been much discussion recently about “data anonymization” Read More...
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Announcing Data Privacy Day 2009

Posted Tuesday, January 13, 2009 5:39 PM by Microsoft Privacy Team
On January 28, 2009, people around the world are celebrating Data Privacy Day by learning more about what we each can do to keep our personal information safer online. The day will feature awareness and education events across generations, cultures, and Read More...
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Privacy & Identity Theft Conference

Posted Tuesday, December 23, 2008 8:45 PM by Microsoft Privacy Team
I recently delivered a keynote address at the Privacy & Identity Theft Conference in Vancouver, Canada. My keynote was entitled, "The Big Picture: Defining and Redefining Identity Fraud." Below is the major portion of my keynote, along with the relevant Read More...
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