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All your data (and biz plans) are belong to Microsoft

http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/18002.html

By: Andrew Orlowski in San Francisco

Posted: 30/03/2001 at 15:07 GMT

With Microsoft's HailStorm .NET initiative hinging on the company's very own PassPort service, you'd think Redmond would be bending over backwards to stress the confidentially of user information.

Well, if that's the case, it hasn't started yet.

The current Passport Terms of Use agreement not only fails to guarantee confidentially, but actually gives Microsoft and its business partners the right to own your information, and do pretty much what they want with it. That encompasses all your Hotmail and MSN Messenger communications today.

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