Microsoft asked the FCC to ensure that users have choices allowin...
Microsoft asked the FCC to ensure that users have choices allowing them “to balance the goals of reducing costs, increasing efficiency, mitigating environmental impacts, protecting privacy and securing sensitive data.” The recommendation came in response to a request by…
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the commission for comments about data portability, cloud computing and broadband. Cloud computing can have many benefits, but “there also are privacy implications raised by the cloud infrastructure,” the company said in an ex parte filing: “While elements of a strong privacy and security framework for cloud computing already exist, many elements of this framework were designed for earlier technologies and leave important gaps in protection.” Microsoft said service providers should be more open in showing how they are maintaining secure services. The government’s role should include publishing data in formats that are “commonly- accepted, machine-readable and interoperable” and updating the Electronic Communications Privacy Act by changing the classifications of services covered and extending privacy protections to e-mails stored more than 180 days, it said.