We recently reported on a man who claimed that Microsoft had locked him out from his own Microsoft Account after finding disallowed content in a private folder on his SkyDrive. That raised some questions about just how private private SkyDrive folders are, and after a bit of investigation, we've got a response from Microsoft on the issue.
In general, Microsoft says, they don't comment on internal processes, either on how their systems work or about this man's
specific case, but they do have 'strict internal policies' in place to limit employee's access to user data. As many of you suspected, this involves
Microsoft Research's PhotoDNA project, which is a pretty amazing piece of automated software that helps law enforcement and ISPs track down child pornography. Obviously, Microsoft's rules cover way more than that, too.
