Privacy

Recent surveys indicate that while cloud computing is a top priority for Canadian CIOs, assurance in cloud services remains the principle inhibitor for adoption. 2012 is proving to be the year of accelerating adoption as organizations gain a deeper appreciation of cloud services and how they can be…

In this video let’s look at the increasingly important topic of privacy online through the lens of a consumer concerned about being tracked on the web. Today, consumers have very little awareness or control over who can track their online activity. With the release candidate: IE9 will offer…

Jaron Lanier is an extraordinary individual. He is the father of virtual reality, a forceful pundit for "software humanism," an accomplished musician, a philosopher, and a Microsoft Partner Architect working on cloud computing problems in the Extreme Computing group. For three…

In this Microsoft Online Services executive video, we meet Steven Cloherty, Senior Director of Risk Management for Microsoft Online Services.  Steven runs our risk management team which includes security, privacy, business continuity, and regulatory compliance teams. He and his teams make…

On the WinVistaClub forums, a member posted a handy tip for creating a custom IE8 Toolbar button and context menu items that allow you to open pages and links in Internet Explorer 8’s new “In Private” mode. “In Private” mode is a new feature in IE8 that lets you control whether or not IE saves your…

Why are Google and Microsoft creating large centralized databases of people's medical histories?  Why are two Internet giants getting involved in medicine?  And what is Microsoft doing to protect patients' privacy?Watch this intriguing interview with George Scriban, Product Manager…

Did you know that the new Beta 2 release of Internet Explorer 8 includes some new features to help protect your privacy?  There are some similarities to the privacy features of Safari, but some interesting new ideas implemented.Check out this blog post from the IE8 team describing the…

When you navigate your browser to website A is website A the only site you're visiting? IE 8 Beta 2 is almost out of the oven. Given this, we of course want to find out all about it straight from the horse’s mouth, so to speak. Enter General Manager of Team Internet Explorer, Dean Hachamovitch,…

Companies like Yahoo!, Microsoft, and (especially) Google depend on being able to track your browsing habits to better target you with advertisements.  In the past 2 years, the proportion of ads being served through ad tracking networks has climbed from 5% to more than 30%, so these tracking…

The New York Times and Times of London this week took two very different views on the issue of online privacy. The New York Times opines that people (especially people in "terrorist" countries) need to get accustomed to having their activities recorded and judged by concerned fellow…