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> I hope you realize a huge multi-billion dollar company such as Microsoft isn't one unified entity. Chances are the PR/politics guys never even talked to the t

by kardos 11y ago

> I hope you realize a huge multi-billion dollar company such as Microsoft isn't one unified entity. Chances are the PR/politics guys never even talked to the team responsible for that telemetry update and have very different agendas. The article was not written by "some PR guy", the author is stated as "Brad Smith, the President and Chief Legal Officer". I don't think someone with that position would be blissfully unaware of the telemetry/spying issue. Actions speak louder than words.

M2Ys4U 11y ago
I can believe it. Microsoft fired their chief privacy advisor (Caspar Bowden) in 2011 for saying “If you sell Microsoft cloud computing to your own governments than this law (FISA) means that NSA can conduct unlimited mass surveillance on that data” to an internal meeting of regional managers.[0] He later tweeted that Brad Smith's "posturing as conscientious is nauseating cynicism"[1] about this very case. I miss Caspar, he was ahead of his time in recognising the dangers of cloud computing (especially in the US wrt FISA etc.). RIP :( [0] http://www.cloudwards.net/news/ex-microsoft-chief-privacy-officer-warns-about-cloud-surveillance-5868/ http://www.cloudwards.net/news/ex-microsoft-chief-privacy-of... [1] https://twitter.com/casparbowden/status/542588420611379201 https://twitter.com/casparbowden/status/542588420611379201