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Ex-Microsoft privacy adviser: I don't trust company after NSA revelations

• Zigurd 13y ago
  Keeping your privacy advocate in the dark while handing over data from US-based operations can't be in harmony with data protection laws. You have to wonder what liability US firms might be exposed to in Europe, and at what diplomatic arm-twisting must be under way to limit that exposure.
• ferdo 13y ago
  I want to know who ever trusted Microsoft to begin with?
  • drakaal 13y ago
    Trust Microsoft before you trust Google. Microsoft never sold your data to advertisers. Google will sell me all of the search data for a user. That includes "directions" so I can tell what household. Google is evil.
• drakaal 13y ago
  Basically he is saying he sucked at his job, because when I was at Microsoft I knew we were sharing data with out warrants and I didn't even work in that group. I knew that Hotmail shared data without warrants. I knew that we had archives of users passwords so that we could comply with orders from the Fed to provide them. I also knew that we didn't require paperwork just a request. If I knew this why didn't the guy who was tasked with knowing this know? There are only two possible answers. He was stupid, or he didn't want to know. There is a third scenario. He knew and is now lying.