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Microsoft Fixes Passport to Meet EU Privacy Rules 1 hour, 2 minutes ago By Lisa Jucca and Tom Miles BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The European Commission (news - web sites) said on Thursday that software giant Microsoft had agreed to make "radical" changes to its .NET Passport system to ease concerns about data privacy posed by Internet identity systems. The agreement settles a half-year long examination by European Union (news - web sites) privacy watchdogs into on-line authentication systems such as Passport. "Microsoft has agreed to implement a comprehensive package of data protection measures, which will mean making substantial changes to the existing .NET passport system," the Commission said in a statement. No details were given. Jonathan Todd, a spokesman for the European Union's executive body, said it was now unlikely that the Passport system, used to identify Internet users, would fall foul of government data protection rules in the 15-country bloc. ..snip.. -- Internet trivia, 20th anv: http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/rfcietff.htm
