Microsoft officials today tried to defuse privacy and security concerns about its new .Net Internet strategy by saying the new technology would let computer users control how much personal information they make available for commercial use. Questions about the privacy and . . .
Microsoft officials today tried to defuse privacy and security concerns about its new .Net Internet strategy by saying the new technology would let computer users control how much personal information they make available for commercial use. Questions about the privacy and security implications of a system that would collect virtually all personal information within a vast, unified computing system have increasingly plagued the Internet computing industry and e-commerce worlds in recent years, as embarrassing flaws have permitted computer vandals to routinely exploit weaknesses in supposedly secure systems.

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