Firm changes policy after backlash against Hotmail snooping incident
From V3:
From V3:
The move comes a week after the firm reported the arrest of former employee Alex Kibkalo, who was apprehended after Microsoft's Trustworthy Computing unit accessed his Hotmail account without a warrant to prove he had sent proprietary code to a blogger based in France.Microsoft will not access content of private email accounts any more
The news caused widespread criticism over Microsoft using powers outside the realm of data privacy rules, to monitor and access the content of private emails that happened to be sent via its email system.
