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from the we-won't-look-we'll-get-law-enforcement-to-do-that dept.
Blackmoore writes:
SN reported last week the story of a search by Microsoft through a reporter's Hotmail account looking for evidence of stolen IP, which resulted in quite a bit of criticism for Microsoft's heavy-handed approach.
Mike Masnick at TechDirt reports that Microsoft and its legal team took the criticism seriously. Microsoft's General Counsel Brad Smith has now put out a new blog post announcing a complete change in policy, promising that it will not unilaterally look through any Microsoft user's content in search of "stolen" intellectual property. If such a search is thought necessary they will refer the matter to Law Enforcement.
Privacy Policy: We don't track anyone except on this site, so DNT requests aren't relevant and are ignored. We don't collect any personally identifiable information from you except your email address, which: you can change at any time, never has to be real in the first place, is only used to contact you if necessary or requested, and we share with nobody.
(Score: 2) by VLM on Tuesday April 01 2014, @07:05PM
It would be of value for someone to create a closely curated cloud privacy wiki.
I would be interested to know which hosted cloud storage provider would be most interested in my pr0n, google drive, dropbox, spideroak, or the bazillion other providers?
A more general privacy advisement service would be interesting, for email providers from this article, etc.
Someone's probably squirted out some kind of ad supported service along these lines?
(Score: 2) by fliptop on Tuesday April 01 2014, @10:17PM
Are you suggesting someone actually read all the Terms and Conditions? Seriously, no one here usually bothers to RTFA, so good luck w/ that.
To be oneself, and unafraid whether right or wrong, is more admirable than the easy cowardice of surrender to conformity
(Score: 2) by VLM on Wednesday April 02 2014, @11:20AM
Yeah that's why it's a classic "somebody else should do this so I can use it" project.