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Microsoft Settles Over Passport Privacy
News The US government has reached a settlement with Microsoft over complaints that the company's Passport authentication service poses a threat to consumers' privacy and security. But privacy groups have questioned whether Passport collects too much...
[August 8, 2002, 14:31]
Microsoft Says Passport Boosts Privacy
News Jason Catlett, president of privacy advocacy group Junkbusters, compared services such as Passport, Microsoft's online identification service, to a transnational identification card. Catlett and other privacy experts already have filed a complaint...
[April 20, 2002, 7:31]
Microsoft Takes Passport To Washington
News Microsoft on Wednesday descended on the nation's capital, trying to quell concerns its Passport authentication service poses a threat to consumers' privacy or security. This has raised concerns from privacy groups and others that Microsoft plans to...
[August 23, 2001, 8:48]
New Passport Privacy Tied To IE 6
News The groups argued that Passport and other technologies that are part of Microsoft's .Net software-as-a-service strategy violate individuals' privacy. Microsoft executives said on Wednesday that the company's Passport authentication service will...
[August 10, 2001, 8:58]
McNealy Scoffs At .Net
News Privacy groups have criticised Microsoft's Passport authentication service, which will be a major component of HailStorm. Although Microsoft says that privacy is one of the company's central concerns with Passport, critics question whether the...
[July 24, 2001, 14:54]
Privacy Groups Turn Up Heat On Windows XP, Passport
News A group of privacy organisations on Wednesday renewed their attacks on Microsoft's Passport authentication service and Windows XP, asking the Federal Trade Commission to mandate changes in Microsoft's new operating system.
[August 16, 2001, 8:50]
Microsoft Pulls Out A New Wallet
News Passport was supposed to be a central aspect of Microsoft's consumer Web services plan, called .Net My Services. Microsoft will debut a new e-wallet service on Tuesday and plans to phase out its current Passport wallet by March 2003, the company said.
[September 3, 2002, 9:04]
Microsoft Tries To Cage Security Gremlins
News A major security patch was issued for Windows XP, and the company had to shut down part of its Passport service to fix a set of flaws in the technology that Microsoft hopes will become the foundation of its .Net initiative.
[November 6, 2001, 14:05]
Instant Messaging - Better Safe Than Sorry
News Particularly when used in conjunction with Windows Dial-Up Networking, the .NET Passport is crackable, so this could lead to legal headaches if a user's corporate use of Passport lead to their personal information being compromised.
[October 4, 2001, 10:57]
Messenger Woes Cast Cloud Over Hailstorm
News Privacy groups have criticized Microsoft's Passport authentication service, which will be a major component of HailStorm. Microsoft in April revised the "terms of use" policy for its Passport service after criticism that the agreement gave the...
[July 10, 2001, 9:42]
Users To Get More Control Over .Net Passport
News Microsoft has reached an agreement with the European Union to implement a package of changes in the .Net Passport online authentication service to stop it running afoul of EU data protection laws. These are, he said, the "current electronic...
[January 30, 2003, 17:26]
Settlement Means Sweeping Changes To Passport
News Many of the problems resulted from Microsoft failing to adhere to its own privacy statements about Passport, Passport Wallet or Kids Passport. Clearly the FTC is setting a high bar, not only for Microsoft but for our entire industry, when it comes...
[August 9, 2002, 7:50]
Microsoft Increases Passport Security
News Microsoft began notifying Passport users on Monday night of changes that would give them more control over their accounts and increased privacy and security. In early August, Microsoft settled with the FTC over privacy problems and potential...
[September 3, 2002, 11:06]
Microsoft Alerts Passport Users To Need For Patch
News The privacy breach in the Passport service, which keeps track of data used by e-commerce sites, potentially exposed the financial data of thousands of consumers, undermining Microsoft's recent efforts to convince people that it is serious about...
[January 4, 2002, 11:54]
Microsoft Selects UBid For .Net
News Microsoft has lined up another partner for its .Net technology, with CMGI's uBid auction network agreeing to use the software giant's Passport authentication service and other Internet services. In addition to the Passport service, uBid will use...
[December 5, 2001, 10:54]
Privacy Advocates Take Aim At Windows XP
News Privacy advocates point to security breaches last year in Microsoft's free Hotmail e-mail program, which is a part of Passport, and a "Code Red" computer worm that recently affected more than 350,000 Microsoft Internet Information Servers.
[July 26, 2001, 10:28]
Windows XP Could Trigger Fight For Web Subscriptions
News Still more important to the .Net strategy are buttons that run down the left side of the browser, linking to Microsoft services bearing such labels as "My Calendar," "My Stocks" and "My Photos," some of which can be used only with Passport accounts.
[October 17, 2001, 16:57]
Can MS Juggle Privacy And Security?
News Even EPIC, which has harshly criticised Microsoft regarding Passport, says the company has good privacy policy. The company's privacy policy extends to customers registering Microsoft software, or to those signing up for the MSN Internet service or...
[February 13, 2002, 15:43]
AOL Joins Safe Net Standard
News In an effort to allay privacy concerns, Microsoft in September said it plans to open up its Passport service to work with other authentication systems by using a security technology called Kerberos. Microsoft has also integrated Passport into its...
[December 5, 2001, 10:10]
Sun 'won't Abandon' Open-source Lobby
News Sun and Microsoft now have a way to work together to prevent schisms such as the fight over digital identity and authentication standards with Passport from Microsoft or Liberty, from Sun and several partners.
[April 7, 2004, 8:45]
