Hotmail's social networking busts your privacy
 

Hotmail's social networking busts your privacy

[In its rush to take on Facebook and Google Buzz, Microsoft is now collecting and displaying personal information on your Hotmail page — information you may never have wanted to broadcast.

Exactly how it's mining this information is something of a mystery, but if you use Hotmail or Windows Live, it's time to review your privacy settings — lest something you said or did comes back to haunt you.

One user signed in to her Hotmail account recently and was greeted with Microsoft's new, improved social networking splash page, shown in Figure 1.]
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http://windowssecrets.com/2010/04/22...s-your-privacy

I guess we can never get too many reminders not to post anything we don't want the whole world knowing. That includes parents, bosses, workmates, infact anyone at all.

Once it's posted it's considered published and you can be held accountable.

Thank you for reminding us.