Q & A: Microsoft, watchdog talk security
Seattle PI | at | by Mike
Peter Cullen, Microsoft's chief privacy strategist, and Simon Davies, director of London-based watchdog group Privacy International, took some time before Thursday's forum to talk specifically about Microsoft. Here's an edited transcript of their remarks: Q: In January, Microsoft complied with a Justice Department subpoena to turn over users' search records in the federal government's attempt to uphold an online pornography law. If the company is so concerned about privacy, why did it comply? Cullen: When we first received the request, we went back and got the government to narrow it. The information we ended up providing was much less than they had asked for. It was very, very anonymized, aggregated, with all identifying data stripped out of it.