Ex-Microsoft privacy adviser: I don't trust company after NSA revelations

I want to know who ever trusted Microsoft to begin with?

Trust Microsoft before you trust Google. Microsoft never sold your data to advertisers.

Google will sell me all of the search data for a user. That includes "directions" so I can tell what household.

Google is evil.

Keeping your privacy advocate in the dark while handing over data from US-based operations can't be in harmony with data protection laws.

You have to wonder what liability US firms might be exposed to in Europe, and at what diplomatic arm-twisting must be under way to limit that exposure.

Basically he is saying he sucked at his job, because when I was at Microsoft I knew we were sharing data with out warrants and I didn't even work in that group.

I knew that Hotmail shared data without warrants. I knew that we had archives of users passwords so that we could comply with orders from the Fed to provide them. I also knew that we didn't require paperwork just a request.

If I knew this why didn't the guy who was tasked with knowing this know? There are only two possible answers. He was stupid, or he didn't want to know.

There is a third scenario. He knew and is now lying.