Privacy is now a “data governance obligation”
Jeff Valdez, director of Acceligence, noted, “There’s definitely some irony here.”
“If Microsoft wants customers to view it as the custodian of their privacy when the government seeks their information, customers will naturally apply the same standard to how Microsoft and LinkedIn themselves collect, use, protect and disclose information,” he said. “Privacy is hard to separate. You can’t use one customer privacy philosophy for government access, another for product design, and another for your own business data practices without ultimately creating trust issues.”
Mike Wilkes, CISO at Aikido Security, agreed, noting: “without meaningful restrictions, judicial oversight, and a sunset mechanism, the temporary need for investigation begins to resemble in many ways the permanent architecture of invisible surveillance. A person may never have the opportunity to challenge the scope of a request because they may not even know the request exists until the prosecutor shows up with an indictment.”
