Microsoft to FTC: Don’t tell us how long to retain users’ private data

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	Microsoft to FTC: Don't tell us how long to retain users' private data Robert Mullins: Microsoft believes it's willingness to delete IP addresses tracked by Bing after six months (and cookies after a year and half) makes it an example of how to do privacy right. Read More WHITE PAPER: Quest Software It's 9am. Do You Know What Your Directory is Doing? In this new Quest Software white paper, you'll see how to get more information that native logging alone can't provide. See how you can get real time, centralized information, and how doing so maximizes Active Directory performance. Read More In this Issue No Conspiracy Theory Needed: Tor Created for U.S. Gov't Spying States to FTC: Don't pre-empt our privacy laws with yours Privacy group demands tougher protections from FTC Is Skype a security risk that endangers your privacy? Microsoft and Google find common ground in open networking Microsoft pays Nortel $7.5 million for IPv4 addresses MMS 2001: Day 2 MMS 2011: You. Empowered. Microsoft Sues Barnes & Noble Over Nook, Claims Android Patent Infringement Visit Microsoft Subnet for more daily news, blogs WHITE PAPER: Siemens Finding the Value in Unified Communications This paper examines the four stages of return companies can see from their UC investments: Lower communications costs are followed by lower operational costs, then better productivity, and finally a true competitive advantage. Read More No Conspiracy Theory Needed: Tor Created for U.S. Gov't Spying Ms. Smith: One of Tor's creators, Michael Reed, says to look at why the government created Tor from a common sense point-of-view instead of as conspiracy theory. Read More States to FTC: Don't pre-empt our privacy laws with yours Robert Mullins: The attorneys general of 15 states are telling the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) "Don't Tread on Me" when it comes to writing rules to protect consumer privacy rights online and in mobile software. Read More Privacy group demands tougher protections from FTC Robert Mullins: The Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) has practically accused the FTC of being derelict in its duties to protect Internet user's privacy. Read More WHITE PAPER: AccelOps Putting the Top 10 SIEM Best Practices to Work This e-book, provides guidance to operationalize security and put the top 10 best SIEM practices to work. Rather than an exhaustive examination of SIEM, it offers insightful details with regards to how IT organizations and information security professionals can gain more assured value from SIEM. Read now! Is Skype a security risk that endangers your privacy? Ms. Smith: Reports are circulating of China stepping up electronic communications censorship beyond e-mail and the Internet in the form of "policing cellphone calls." Read More Microsoft and Google find common ground in open networking Jon Brodkin: Arch-rivals Microsoft and Google occasionally find themselves on the same side, and another example presented itself this week with the creation of the Open Networking Foundation. Read More Microsoft pays Nortel $7.5 million for IPv4 addresses Julie Bort: Microsoft this week offered to pay Nortel $7.5 million for 666,624 legacy IPv4 addresses. Shades of the black market have begun. Read More WHITE PAPER: CA Magic Quadrant for User Provisioning According to Gartner, there is no "one size fits all" user provisioning solution. This Gartner Magic Quadrant highlights key differentiators when selecting a user provisioning solution and provides a comprehensive overview and ranking of the top 18 vendors in this market. Read Now MMS 2001: Day 2 Kerrie Meyler: The cloud and consumerization meet. They enable and feed upon each other. Read More MMS 2011: You. Empowered. Kerrie Meyler: MMS 2012, projected for 3,500 in attendance, has approximately 4,000 attendees, with nearly 50% here for the first time. The theme is the cloud and consumerization of IT. Read More Microsoft Sues Barnes & Noble Over Nook, Claims Android Patent Infringement Microsoft claims that Android violates Microsoft patents, yet it hasn't sued Google. Instead it sued Motorola and now Barnes & Noble. Read More Visit Microsoft Subnet for more daily news, blogs This newsletter features content from the Microsoft Subnet community of industry-expert bloggers, giveaways and all the top news of interest to network professionals. We've got a Windows 7 Enterprise Technician class for three people up for grabs, too. Follow us on Twitter @microsoftsubnet Read More
	GOODIES FROM THE SUBNETS Up for grabs from Microsoft Subnet: a Windows 7 Enterprise Technician class for three people. From Cisco Subnet: 15 copies of VMware ESXi books. Enter here. SLIDESHOWS Hot technology at the annual CTIA wireless show CTIA Wireless offers a look at the evolving mobile landscape, from handsets and apps to core network systems. Here's a few of the things that are hot at the show in Orlando. First look at Firefox 4 Firefox 4 has finally arrived, after months of delays and after rival Web browsers Internet Explorer 9 and Chrome 10 already shipped. The browser gets a speed boost and several feature enhancements that are so significant that they all have their own proper names, like Panorama, JaegerMonkey and Firefox Sync. Were they worth the wait? Let's take a look. MOST-READ STORIES Paul Baran, Internet and packet switching pioneer, is mourned Microsoft scheme sniffs out unused wireless spectrum How Apple played hard to get and seduced the enterprise Apple holding out on iOS 5 until fall? Microsoft pays Nortel $7.5 million for IPv4 addresses AT&T-T-Mobile merger widely panned Nokia looks to make Windows Phone 7 hottest mobile OS Update Java and you may get annoying McAfee scanner too Is Skype a security risk that endangers your privacy? The RSA Hack FAQ
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