Microsoft Corp. risks fines unless it complies with a three-month ultimatum from France’s data privacy watchdog to stop collecting masses of data and tracking Windows 10 users without their consent.
I’ve noticed a bit of a trend in some recent comments I’ve received on my blog that amount to this: people who have personal information exposed in data breaches are stupid for entering legitimate details into the website. The...
During the Day 3 Vision Keynote at Microsoft's recently completed Worldwide Partner Conference we had the chance to hear from Brad Smith, the Executive Vice President and General Counsel, Legal and Corporate Affairs for Microsoft...
We’ve seen a lot of big hacks in recent years. Adobe and Target are two of the larger ones that come to mind, but then they were just credentials and credit cards which are both readily replaced and cause limited long term damage by their...
I was preparing for a talk this past weekend which saw me spending a bunch of time looking at the way apps on my iPhone were talking to the underlying services which sit on the web. It takes about a minute to set things up so that all the...
