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kpete

(71,991 posts) Thu Dec 5, 2013, 04:49 PM Dec 2013

Microsoft has announced new steps to protect its users from government surveillance, including NSA

Microsoft has announced new steps to protect its users from government surveillance, including by the National Security Agency (NSA).

In a blog post late Wednesday, Microsoft general counsel Brad Smith said the company is "especially alarmed" by recent reports about the U.S. government's attempts to "to circumvent online security measures — and in our view, legal processes and protections — in order to surreptitiously collect private customer data."

In response, Microsoft said it will expand encryption for its products, reinforce legal protections for user data and increase transparency around the company's software code.

The company said it will take those steps even though it has "no direct evidence that customer data has been breached by unauthorized government access," according to Smith.

MORE:
http://thehill.com/blogs/hillicon-valley/technology/192169-microsoft-announces-anti-surveillance-steps

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Microsoft has announced new steps to protect its users from government surveillance, including NSA (Original Post) kpete Dec 2013 OP

Looks like someone else. sendero Dec 2013 #1

Well..it's a step in the good direction. But, how will we know KoKo Dec 2013 #2

Microsoft is a PRISM partner and this announcement is total BS BelgianMadCow Dec 2013 #3

sendero

(28,552 posts)

1. Looks like someone else.

Reply to kpete (Original post)

Thu Dec 5, 2013, 05:21 PM

Dec 2013

..... is worried about what is in the Snowden data dump

KoKo

(84,711 posts)

2. Well..it's a step in the good direction. But, how will we know

Reply to kpete (Original post)

Thu Dec 5, 2013, 05:36 PM

Dec 2013

they can achieve this since? How can we check? That "back door" NSA had was either known or not known to them. Doubt NSA will give up so easily.

BelgianMadCow

(5,379 posts)

3. Microsoft is a PRISM partner and this announcement is total BS

Reply to kpete (Original post)

Thu Dec 5, 2013, 06:49 PM

Dec 2013

anyone that wants to trust Microsoft is not thinking straight.

To wit:

The National Security Agency paid millions of dollars to cover the costs of major internet companies involved in the Prism surveillance program after a court ruled that some of the agency's activities were unconstitutional, according to top-secret material passed to the Guardian.

The technology companies, which the NSA says includes Google, Yahoo, Microsoft and Facebook, incurred the costs to meet new certification

Guardian.

That proves their direct involvement.

http://prism-break.org if you want out.

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