Statement of Microsoft Corporation on Customer Privacy

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5. understand there is a difference between the public and private Internets

any major company out there has a private network, old days it was just point-to-point circuits. These days we use technologies like MPLS, VPLS, all the VPN clients out there...

You should assume (spying or no spying) that traffic on the public Internet is not secure. PERIOD. Hackers, governments, people phishing for data- Companies work hard to ensure their internal (private internet) traffic is secure and internal corporate servers protected. If Microsoft was providing the government information from say their cloud computing services, there would be hell to pay. They would be sued, and would probably end up in bankruptcy.