Microsoft Now Suddenly Cares About Privacy Rights, Constitution - After Their Above and Beyond NSA Cooperation is Exposed

Microsoft Now Suddenly Cares About Privacy Rights, Constitution After Their Above and Beyond NSA Cooperation is Exposed As recent leaks made clear, Microsoft was the first in line to participate in the government's PRISM spying program. What's more, the company went above and beyond what was asked of it, not only delivering access to user data, but aiding the government in intercepting Skype communications and even helping the government break Microsoft encryption. Of course now that the program has been exposed and Microsoft in particular has been singled out as a government snooping BFF, the company's going to great lengths to express how concerned they are about government over-reach. Like the other companies caught up in the PRISM scandal before it, Microsoft is now asking the Obama administration for the right to detail just what kind of information has been asked of it. In a blog post by the company that uses meticulously-crafted sentences to deny much of what Snowden's leaks have clearly illuminated, Microsoft insists they're now very, very concerned about the Constitution: The world needs a more open and public discussion of these practices. While the debate should focus on the practices of all governments, it should start with practices in the United States. In part, this is an obvious reflection of the most recent stories in the news. It?s also a reflection of something more timeless. The United States has been a role model by guaranteeing a Constitutional right to free speech. We want to exercise that right. With U.S. Government lawyers stopping us from sharing more information with the public, we need the Attorney General to uphold the Constitution. Yes, it's true that the government's new snooping laws demand companies turn over a significant amount of data and not talk about it, but it's also clear from leaks in recent weeks that Microsoft went well above and beyond what was demanded of it. That's in contrast to Yahoo, who appears to have tried briefly to fight for consumer privacy rights, well after Microsoft was already part of PRISM. To gleefully help an over-reaching government at every turn and then turn around pretending they're incredibly concerned about user privacy and the constitution (much like AT&T did when they were caught being equally hyper-cooperative) has the disingenuous stink of empty damage control.

Microsoftee Call me surprised. 360 Microsoft. Doing 180's on their Xbox One. Windows 8 needing start button so there it is in 8.1 Some how, Microsoft is the picture of its software: release it broken then patch it later. -- Splat 1 edit Re: Microsoftee Win8 is such a massive turd. It's not that win8 doesn't do things win7 and below did, but MS completely changed how the interface interacts with the user. Why change something that wasn't broken since 1995? In win8 you turn the computer off under a popout "settings" icon! C'mon, now! I had to actually google how to turn off my win8 laptop the first day! I was so frustrated about that. I wasn't buying a xbone anyways as my xbox360 red ringed after only a few games. My only wish is that game devs start making games work on linux out of the box. If they did that, I'd drop windows 8 like the turd it is. said by kickass69: Thing is, people wanted the Start Button back with the Windows 7 Start Menu attached to it not just the button. Well said... and we would like our windows back as well Fullscreen8? is great on tablets and televisions... but not so great on a PC. Reviews: ?Time Warner Cable ?Verizon FiOS ?voip.ms Its still not a real start button, it just gets you back to the main metro interface. In any case windows 8 is the biggest POS O/S release ever from them. Im now starting to thing Bob was a good release Got the rents a new laptop, and Win 8 lasted 10 minutes. They couldn't even begin to figure it out, even after I showed them. When I thought of the stupid decisions that were made and the more effort it took--except getting to live tiles with ads--I realized just how bad this O/S is. The good news is because it is SO BAD that Win 7 will be supported for at least another 10 years until hopefully I can get my key apps on Linux or something new and not have to worry. Heck in 10 years PCs will probably be dead, so no matter anyways and I guess that's MSFT point of releasing a tablet O/S for desktop. As to spying, the US Govt is MSFT biggest customer, so it's no surprise that MSFT does what the boss says. ?bgr.com/2013/06/27/windows-8-1-s???useless/ Note: AES 256, Blowfish, et al encryption can in 2013 allow citizens to have 100% security and private communications, yet almost all of our communications are in public and in the clear. Until that changes it will easy for the govts, criminals, or companies to get at that data... Reviews: ?Comcast Re: Microsoftee said by Karl Bode: I don't mind the core WIndows 7-esque Windows 8 experience (after I added Start 8 by Stardock start button), but I LOATHE the whole Metro thing. Like somebody duct-taped a dead hamster to my OS. It's such a fractured, bizarre experience I can't comprehend why so many reviews seemed to think it was ok.... I agree. The OS is great but they flubbed the User Experience. I have been running 8 at work since RTM with Start 8 and It's as good as if not beeter than Win7. But they REALLY screwed the pooch on the UI and putting that same garbage on Server 2012 just compounds the blunder. Blob -- I may have been born yesterday. But it wasn't at night. Host: Time Warner Intern.. PC gaming Tech PC gaming GAMES Re: Microsoftee said by b10010011: Because most are little more than paid shills. But they get paid in getting new hardware/software first. Too many bad reviews and you might find yourself lower on the list of who gets it first. Yeah I've seen that first hand quite often. Seems like there's way too many brand focused journalists whose entire life seems focused on blowing smoke for one brand. I've yet to see one that thinks this is in any way gross, either. Reviews: ?voip.ms Agreed regarding the Win 8 "user experience" It's on the new Lenovo Yoga I bought (with no way to downgrade to Win 7 that I can see) and dear god in heaven Win 8 looks like it was programmed for computer users who have trouble typing *email addresses* The kicker? It still won't help those users... I mean hiding the way to turn the system *off*?? Bravo MS.... Bravo and then this whole "let's give the government every byte of user data that we have on them" NefCanuck Oh Microsoft, you are such a Whore! Meh! Microsoft is like a whore that is sorry she got caught boning the neighbor and now she claims, "We were just playing!" Too little too late Baby! I won't be using Bitlocker Drive encryption on my drives any time soon! Next! Reviews: ?Comcast It certainly is possible to be... ...both concerned about privacy and still cooperate "to the fullest extent" (or however the MS legal staff interpreted the requirements of the various FISA orders over time.) Recognize a very small subset of the 90,000 plus MS employees were even aware of the FISA activity, and that had it been put to a vote (not how any business actually functions, they need to be faster /more efficient than a representive democracy) there likely would have been years of discussions and delays by which time a new version would be out, requiring an entirely new method..... ... dead hampster duct-taped ... Nice one, Karl. k 1 edit First nail in Microsoft coffin I think this deal with the N^A will spell the end of M$ dominance of the world market. I can see China building their own OS and requiring all it's citizens to use it. I would love to see statistics of how it changes in other countries after this. The N^A had to be thrilled about all the bootleg copies of windows around the world. Will we see China and others firewall off their Internet or start their own Internet? I'll Leave that question for another thread. Re: First nail in Microsoft coffin said by plk: I think this deal with the N^A will spell the end of M$ dominance of the world market. I can see China building their own OS and requiring all it's citizens to use it. I would love to see statistics of how it changes in other countries after this. The N^A had to be thrilled about all the bootleg copies of windows around the world. Will we see China and others firewall off their Internet or start their own Internet? I'll Leave that question for another thread. that will be good for the US as they can't take our jobs when our software can't run on china os Reviews: ?Comcast Re: First nail in Microsoft coffin said by Joe12345678:said by plk: I think this deal with the N^A will spell the end of M$ dominance of the world market. I can see China building their own OS and requiring all it's citizens to use it. I would love to see statistics of how it changes in other countries after this. The N^A had to be thrilled about all the bootleg copies of windows around the world. Will we see China and others firewall off their Internet or start their own Internet? I'll Leave that question for another thread. that will be good for the US as they can't take our jobs when our software can't run on china os WHAT JOBS if we have NO access to that market? There is a reason MS sells a very cheap version of windows in ASIA, and then works with those gov't to slow piracy rates, (while most like providing language specific NSA backdoors to their gov'ts in return) You only need half of those (soon to be) billions of computer users to pay a few dollars a year to add up to a lot of money. Boeing and MS and a lot of other US companies will gladly trade some of the profit for a chunk of the market.

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