KAMIND’s trusted partner Microsoft is ultra committed to protecting its customers’ data. KAMIND and Microsoft both believe that all information it might help a customer accumulate, store, access or transmit always remains the property of that customer; not be repurposed, shared or otherwise used without our customer’s expressed permission. The following is a statement about data privacy and security made this week by Microsoft to its many worldwide partners. I am happy to share it with you. It is, I think, reassuring.
- Microsoft does not supply any government with direct, unfettered access to any customers’ data.
- Microsoft does not supply any government with encryption keys or assist their efforts to break our encryption.
- Microsoft does not engineer back doors into our products.
- Microsoft has never supplied business or government data in response to a national security order.
- Microsoft will contest any request by the US Government to disclose customer content stored exclusively overseas.
- Microsoft is strengthening the encryption of customer data across our network and services.
- Microsoft is providing best-in-class cryptography.
- Microsoft is committed to notifying business and government customers if we receive legal orders relating to their data.
- Microsoft provides governments with appropriate ability to review our source code, reassure themselves of its integrity and confirm no backdoors.
- Microsoft’s Digital Crimes Unit has been at the forefront of fighting cybercrime.
- Microsoft Trustworthy Computing – engineering approach has been in place for 12+ years and we continue to invest.
