Microsoft alters Passport terms of use.htm
Stephen Dawes
sdawes@gov.calgary.ab.ca
Fri, 6 Apr 2001 14:22:22 -0600
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OK, HERE IT GOES, I HAVE PILL IN HAND, AND NOW TO SWALLOW IT!!!
Over the past week, Buddy has been driving the discussion on Microsoft's
Passport policy. Well, I first must say, sorry I doubted you Buddy.
Secondly, I have to say, that my suspicions were somewhat right as well.
In the attached article, you will find that Buddy was talking about the
original passport policy that is from around 1999, and which was out of
date, thanks to the privacy policy that was published after the original
passport policy.
However, Microsoft took so much heat in the last little while, that they
have created a new, supposedly softer passport policy.
Read the following article to find out what I am talking about.
Oh yeah!! I DO NOT WORK FOR, HAVE ANY STOCK IN, OR HAVE ANY INTEREST, in
Microsoft. I just think that it is important that we are all informed, and
that there are no loose ends left dangling with regards to this subject.
Like or not, Microsoft has been used primarily in most of the offices where
we work.
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<P class=3D"storycopy" status=3D"lede">MICROSOFT, FACING A firestorm of =
criticism over Passport "Terms of Use" that gave the company control =
over all content that is transmitted via the Web service, has softened =
the policy by rewording it.</P><p> </p>
<P class=3D"storycopy">The terms of use, which were altered late =
Wednesday, gave Microsoft control of whatever users transmitted "by =
posting messages, uploading files, inputting data, submitting any =
feedback or suggestions, or engaging in any other form of communication =
with or through the Passport Web site."</P><p> </p>
<P class=3D"storycopy">Under the old guidelines, Microsoft could "use, =
modify, copy, distribute, transmit, publicly display, publicly perform, =
reproduce, publish, sublicense, create derivative works from, transfer, =
or sell any such communication." The company also had assumed the right =
to sublicense such content to third parties, and publish user names in =
connection with any of the data.</P><p> </p>
<P class=3D"storycopy">However, a Microsoft spokesman said Thursday =
morning that those terms had never been exercised, and that the Passport =
privacy statement -- implemented in 1999 -- had superceded the terms of =
use.</P><p> </p>
<P class=3D"storycopy">"The terms of use were simply out of date for a =
long time," Microsoft spokesman Tom Pilla said Thursday morning. "They =
should have been updated, and we unfortunately were way behind in =
catching them up to Passport's stated privacy =
statement."</P><p> </p>
<P class=3D"storycopy">"The privacy statement has always trumped the =
terms of use," Pilla said.</P><p> </p>
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href=3D"http://www.passport.com/Consumer/TermsOfUse.asp">www.passport.com=
/Consumer/TermsOfUse.asp</A>, gives Microsoft the right to use customer =
communications only if the user is communicating with the Redmond, =
Wash., company: </P><p> </p>
<P class=3D"storycopy">"By submitting any feedback or suggestions to =
Microsoft concerning the Passport Web Site or the Passport Service, you =
warrant and represent that you ... are granting Microsoft and its =
affiliated companies permission to use, modify, copy, distribute, =
transmit, publicly display, publicly perform, reproduce, publish, =
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