Privacy Monday – March 31, 2014 Opening Day!

Last Monday in March (Opening Day for you baseball fans) - some privacy/security bits and bytes to close out the month.

Microsoft:  "We won't access private e-mail accounts ...  Promise."

Microsoft has committed to no longer accessing the private e-mail accounts of its users after criticism that the company looked at the e-mail of a former employee during an internal investigation. The company said it will turn such matters over to law enforcement. Microsoft has "advocated that governments should rely on formal legal processes and the rule of law for surveillance activities," so "it seems apparent that we should apply a similar principle and rely on formal legal processes for our own investigations," Microsoft's General Counsel Brad Smith wrote in a blog post.