Microsoft is Working on a Privacy Panel to Control Your Personal Data

Author: Josh Hendrickson / Source: How-To Geek

Corporations hold massive amounts of data on who you are. But most of them won’t let you see what they know. Microsoft is working on a project to add transparency.

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As Mary Jo Foley reports, Bali aims to follow the concept of inverse privacy. First proposed by Microsoft Research, the fundamental problem described is one we’re all aware of: companies contain a massive amount of granular data about individuals, but those individuals rarely if ever have any control or even knowledge of the contents of that data.

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