M$ responds to NSA allegations

[The Frozen One]

didn't see a thread n this posted. Saw this on reddit.

Responding to government legal demands for customer data - Microsoft on the Issues - Site Home - TechNet Blogs

here's the summary

In short, when governments seek information from Microsoft relating to customers, we strive to be principled, limited in what we disclose, and committed to transparency. Put together, all of this adds up to the following across all of our software and services:

Microsoft does not provide any government with direct and unfettered access to our customer’s data. Microsoft only pulls and then provides the specific data mandated by the relevant legal demand.

If a government wants customer data – including for national security purposes – it needs to follow applicable legal process, meaning it must serve us with a court order for content or subpoena for account information.

We only respond to requests for specific accounts and identifiers. There is no blanket or indiscriminate access to Microsoft’s customer data. The aggregate data we have been able to publish shows clearly that only a tiny fraction – fractions of a percent – of our customers have ever been subject to a government demand related to criminal law or national security.

All of these requests are explicitly reviewed by Microsoft’s compliance team, who ensure the request are valid, reject those that are not, and make sure we only provide the data specified in the order. While we are obligated to comply, we continue to manage the compliance process by keeping track of the orders received, ensuring they are valid, and disclosing only the data covered by the order.

Microsoft is obligated to comply with the applicable laws that governments around the world – not just the United States – pass, and this includes responding to legal demands for customer data. All of us now live in a world in which companies and government agencies are using big data, and it would be a mistake to assume this somehow is confined to the United States. Agencies likely obtain this information from a variety of sources and in a variety of ways, but if they seek customer data from Microsoft they must follow legal processes.

tl;dr M$ denies giving the NSA full access to their services. They only comply with court order and warrants. When they asked the government to let the public get more details, the lawyers for the government denied the request. So we wont know if this bullshyt or true.

The bigger this gets, the worse it is for the US of A.

 

[Artificial Intelligence]

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[Ed MOTHERFUCKING G]

Thats a great policy microsoft but we dont believe you so go fukk yourself.

Signed,

Everyone in America

 

[Why-Fi]

so the nsa sits around and files court orders all day. yea ok i dont even know if i buy that they need permission from MS or anybody else

 

[Orbital-Fetus]

NSA is never denied requests.

anything they want is rubber stamped and good to go.

they have more info than they can handle at this point.