MSFT releases privacy 'best practices' - including 'don't retain user data'

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From: Ethan Ackerman <[email protected]>
Date: October 19, 2006 6:26:23 PM EDT
To: David Farber <[email protected]>
Subject: MSFT releases privacy 'best practices' - including 'don't  
retain user data'

Greetings Dave,

IP readers may be interested in this recent MSFT release, ostensibly a
'developer's best practices' guide for protecting user privacy.  In
light of recent calls for mandatory data retention for law enforcement
purposes, it is interesting to see a major software author (and
ISP/online service provider, for that matter) suggesting that data be
deleted as soon as practical.

MSFT doc:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx? 
FamilyID=c48cf80f-6e87-48f5-83ec-a18d1ad2fc1f&displaylang=en

Ars Technica coverage:
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20061018-8015.html

WaPost coverage:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/10/16/ 
AR2006101600817.html