I’m reading about how Microsoft read a blogger’s Hotmail (or other Microsoft hosted email) to determine who leaked Microsoft information to that blogger. Microsoft’s response is pathetic, stating that “the privacy of our customers is incredibly important to us” in the same post that explains that they’ll keep doing it.
While I think that doing this is both evil and shortsighted (they lose trust and users), the only thing that surprised me was that they admitted it.
As the Guardian points out, other email providers also reserve the right to do this in their terms of service.
I have first hand knowledge of this. A few years ago, I’m nearly certain that Google accessed my Gmail account after I broke a major story about Google.
A couple of weeks after the story broke my source, a Google employee, approached me at a party in person in a very…
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