Microsoft changes privacy policy to defer to law enforcement
blogs.technet.com
blogs.technet.com
Every company makes mistakes and, at face value, this looks like a good measure to avoid the same mistake in the future.
Credit where its due and all that...
What I'm peeved about is that they dared to violate their users' privacy in such an extensive way in the first place... and that there are no consequences from doing that.
Original HN headline: Microsoft changes privacy policy to defer to law enforcement
What MS actually said they'd do is refer the matter to law enforcement rather than investigate it themselves. This is a good thing because criminal investigations come with all sorts of protections for citizen rights and privacy.
If it's just MS doing their own investigation, they can do whatever the want. It's a black box with no accountability.
>What MS actually said they'd do is refer the matter to law enforcement rather than investigate it themselves. This is a good thing because criminal investigations come with all sorts of protections for citizen rights and privacy.
Isn't what the headline says? The link's original headline "We’re listening: Additional steps to protect your privacy" is much worse:
Who's listening? technet.com may not obviously be Microsoft
What are the additional steps? Actually it seems like it's only one step: to refer the case to law enforcement, or in other words to defer to law enforcement