Steve Kolowich reports: After several years of negotiating, a dozen colleges have reached an agreement with Microsoft that could inspire more institutions to outsource their internal communications and data storage systems to the company and its far-flung servers — even when those systems hold sensitive student and research data. Since 2010 Microsoft had been in talks…
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Thundering silence when Microsoft changes services agreement – do the changes affect privacy?
Edward Wyatt and Nick Wingfield report: Microsoft instituted a policy on Friday that gives the company broad leeway over how it gathers and uses personal information from consumers of its free, Web-based products like e-mail, search and instant messaging. Almost no one noticed, however, even though Microsoft’s policy changes are much the same as those…
Article: Why the Right to Data Portability Likely Reduces Consumer Welfare: Antitrust and Privacy Critique
Peter Swire and Yianni Lagos have an article in a forthcoming issue of Maryland Law Review that challenges the EU’s draft Data Protection Regulation on the issue of a right to data portability. Here’s the abstract: In its draft Data Protection Regulation, the European Union has announced a major new economic and human right – the…
Sneaky Apps & Your Personal Information
Here’s another interesting infographic from Muhammad Saleem of BackgroundCheck.org: