Microsoft adopts missionary position on privacy

SOFTWARE GIANT Microsoft is to tell the world about its internal privacy guidelines in a bid to show the world how it should be done.

According to the Sydney Morning Herald, a spokesVole said that companies needed to adopt more cohesive standards for safeguarding people's data.

The document will hit the internet on Thursday and is supposed to be quite detailed and a bit of tome.

It includes the usual good ideas like telling customers why a company collects personally-identifiable information, advocates deleting data that is no longer needed and calls for companies to have good reasons why they should store each bit of data.

Microsoft has ruminated long and hard on the issue of privacy after it released a product called Hailstorm that stored all sorts of personal information under one log-on.

It changed the name to Passport and lost a lot of its functionality because most people didn't want to hand Microsoft all their personal data, for some reason. µ

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Sydney Morning Herald