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"Privacy is not dead: Microsoft lawyer prepares to take on US government" http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/dec/14/privacy-is...

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Undoubtedly related in some way, but it's hard to tell how much and in which direction. Microsoft is a huge organization and for the most part (from what we've seen from their behavior and from Snowden documents) they are for the most part on board with the US using the tech sector and their technology to gain intelligence and decision advantages overseas.

Essentially Microsoft wants the best of BOTH worlds. It wants to comply with government requests and it wants to win on the technological front.

Microsoft does NOT want to lose customers and their unique place in the market, however. It's going to be a very careful balancing act for them to both comply with US government requests and to maintain a veil of innocence to both domestic and foreign customers. So far the damage to their reputation could have been a lot worse and their PR has more than proven its worth.

I feel Microsoft is fighting on both fronts.

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