Amazon, Google, and Microsoft's privacy policies for the cloud

mattydread23 writes: With the revelation last week that Microsoft read a Hotmail customer's emails to hunt down a screenshot leaker, some enterprise types have taken it to mean that the big cloud providers can read any data they want in their public clouds. That's not really the case, although there's always an exception for Uncle Sam. Matt Weinberger takes a look at the cloud privacy policies of the big three.