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.
A U.S. district court judge has ruled against Microsoft in the company's effort to oppose a U.S. government search warrant for emails stored in Ireland.
Grant Gross | 01 Aug | Read more
Congress needs to do more to protect private data of U.S. citizens from government surveillance and the misuse of technology by companies, a top Microsoft executive said Tuesday.
Grant Gross | 25 Jun | Read more
The U.S. National Security Agency's efforts to defeat encrypted Internet communications, detailed in news stories this week, are an attack on the security of the Internet and on users' trust in the network, some security experts said.
Grant Gross | 06 Sep | Read more
Negotiations have broken down between two Internet giants and U.S. government representatives over the companies' requests to publish information on the surveillance requests they receive, a Microsoft executive said Friday.
Grant Gross | 30 Aug | Read more
Microsoft does not give the U.S. National Security agency direct access to its customers' email or instant messages, contrary to previous news reports, a company executive said.
Grant Gross | 16 Jul | Read more
A 24-year-old law setting the rules on how law enforcement agencies can obtain electronic records needs to be updated because it's out of step with modern technology and privacy expectations, U.S. Senator Patrick Leahy said Wednesday.
Grant Gross | 23 Sep | Read more