There was a really insightful posting about Microsoft’s law enforcement investigation compliance policies over at GamePolitics.
MSFT Criminal Compliance Handbook Leaked | GamePolitics.
The most important thing to realize is that I was writing stuff 10 years ago trying to alert businesses and consumers that Microsoft was tracking what we did. Companies embed tracking information in hardware and on web sites also. No big shock there to most people.
But the shock is just how ready Microsoft is to hand everything about you over to a law enforcement agency. They designed the information stores for their online services so that they could easily obtain your info and provide it when asked. I’m talking about Windows Live, Windows Live ID Windows Live Messenger, Hotmail and Xbox Live.
For example, law enforcement could get a warrant for your Xbox Live account and obtain your full name, address, credit card, Microsoft PassPort account and then have access to all your Hotmail email. And your IP address.
The big picture is that if you’re using Microsoft anything you should know that Big Brother is watching you. The same is true for Google – Gmail, the search engine, desktop search – so I’m not calling out Microsoft for anything others don’t do.
They know where you are, your web activities, the text of your email, the games you play and the movies you watch.
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