Snowden effect? Microsoft hands control of cloud customer data to German ‘trustee’
Microsoft has cobbled together a deal to put telecom giant Deutsche Telekom in control of its Germany-based customer data.
Microsoft has cobbled together a deal to put telecom giant Deutsche Telekom in control of its Germany-based customer data.
Microsoft has gained third-party verification that its core cloud services adhere to a new international standard for handling private information in public clouds.
A long-standing effort to extend privacy protections to email and other data in the cloud got new life Thursday when U.S. lawmakers introduced not one, but two bills to reform the country's electronic privacy laws.
Grant Gross | 13 Feb | Read more
The U.S. Department of Justice should back off its request for Microsoft to turn over a suspect's digital documents stored on a server in Ireland, or be prepared for other governments demanding documents stored on U.S. servers, the company's general counsel said.
Grant Gross | 16 Dec | Read more
Responding to complaints by the US government over mobile device encryption, Google chairman Eric Schmidt has said the company’s hand was forced by government hacking.