Microsoft has announced a change its privacy policy after the software giant admitted to reading the personal emails of a French blogger in 2012 to discover the identity of an employee leaking its software.
The software giant was met with uproar when it revealed it had searched through a private Hotmail account to find correspondence with Alex Kibkalo, a former Microsoft employee accused of leaking Windows 8 code.
In a post on Microsoft’s blog, Brad Smith, general counsel and EVP at Microsoft acknowledged that the situation “raised legitimate questions about the privacy interests of our customers,” and “effective immediately” it Read full story ›
Source: The Drum
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