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Microsoft buys Privacy Management Company Credentica for Undisclosed Sum | Microsoft buys Privacy Management Company Credentica for Undisclosed Sum |
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| by David Heath | |
| Sunday, 09 March 2008 | |
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Last week, Canadian privacy company Credentica was purchased by Microsoft. Credentica is a world-leader in the development of reduced-leakage personal data repositories.
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In the general case, society has been seeking a leak-free solution to private data stores for a very long time – Credentica has exactly that; hence Microsoft’s interest. And money. If you read the proproco link, you’ll realise that the generic solution is a rather complex application of Public Key Infrastructure (PKI), hence the extended interval between the implementation of PKI and the first realistic implementation of privacy based on it.
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