Microsoft targets vacationing Hill staffers with e-mail privacy ad campaign

Microsoft, getting a jump on the fall political season, took out full-page ads in the Outer Banks Sentinel, Martha's Vineyard Times and Rehoboth Beach's Cape Gazette to remind Washingtonians on vacation about e-mail privacy laws.

The ads are part of an ongoing campaign by Microsoft to convince lawmakers to reform the laws. Microsoft and other tech firms are also calling on Congress to debate these issues and settle the matter with legislation, rather than leaving it up to the courts to decide.