Microsoft Privacy & Safety : Search Engine Privacy

Microsoft Bing Confims Commitment to Comprehensive Results

Microsoft Privacy Team — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 19:18:00 GMT

From Adam Sohn on the Bing Blog : There’s been some buzz today based on a post by Nicholas D. Kristof at the New York Times suggesting that Bing filters results for searches conducted outside of the People’s Republic of China (PRC) using Simplified Chinese...(read more)

Bing Bringing Twitter Search to You – With Privacy Protected

Microsoft Privacy Team — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 19:07:00 GMT

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)

The Week in Privacy – September 4, 2009

Microsoft Privacy Team — Sat, 05 Sep 2009 03:03:00 GMT

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)

Advancing Security and Transparency in Online Advertising

Microsoft Privacy Team — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 00:33:00 GMT

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)

Bing helps keep the web safer with malware filter

Microsoft Privacy Team — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 02:40:00 GMT

From the Bing Blog : Bing and Security: We at Bing absolutely believe that security is one of our top priorities. We will keep investing in security, as one of our primary goals is to protect and secure our users and provide them a safe search experience....(read more)

Bing Safe Search Update

Microsoft Privacy Team — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 02:26:00 GMT

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 large...(read more)

Bing Smart Motion Preview and SafeSearch

Microsoft Privacy Team — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 01:25:00 GMT

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 it),...(read more)

IE 8 SmartScreen Protects Against Identity-Stealing Malware

Microsoft Privacy Team — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 03:04:00 GMT

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-release...(read more)