Planning the Future of Privacy at Microsoft

Tony writes "Peter Cullen, Microsoft's chief privacy strategist, found himself in the front line in the wake of the software giant's recent antipiracy controversy. He talks about his role at the company, and what's in store for the future." From the interview: "Cullen, Microsoft's chief privacy strategist, has been very involved with the issue and readily admits that the software maker dropped the ball on WGA Notifications. The flap puts him on the front line, rather than his usual role behind the scenes. For the most part, Cullen, who joined Microsoft three years ago from the Royal Bank of Canada in Toronto, is happy with his role at the software giant. He works on things such as guidelines for developers and privacy policies."

Comments

Re:Its for you own good thing-Drink Slashdot.

[AlgorithMan]

so you are also one of the guys that say "alright, the NSA spies on me and listens to ALL my phone calls - well it's for fighting terrorism so it's neccessary like everything that the president declares neccessary against terrorism"

Re:WGA is about security and privacy of the users?

[Anonymous Coward]

Those CEOs and their lawyers generate a lot of income for society, which economically far outweighs any loss they cause. CEOs only get jailed when they lose a LOT of money.

Potheads are economically useless and it would make more sense to execute them, were it not that executions are far too expensive to make it feasible.

Rich peoples' lives are more valuable, i.e. important than the layman's. Here, are you happier now that someone finally told you?