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I guess we all should have clicked on 'Decline' instead of 'Accept' when the EULA came up!
Revealed! Crucial detail that Windows 10 privacy critics are missing
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*-Emphasis mine...
I disagree... To begin with, MS has retro-fitted W7 and W8.x with "telemetry patches", under the "important updates" header. Most people didn't realize this and even the ones who did, it's too late if they need to remove it. The data has already been uploaded to MS servers.
Other OS's can and do similar "telemetry" collection, such as OSX, Chrome, Linux distroes, etc. Applications are another can of worm, they can collect data just as well as the OS can. All of the local installation of programs with optional/enforced cloed connection can and does collect user data. For example MS retro-fitted Office 2013 with "telemetry" data collection patches from Office 2016, Firefox versions later than 6.0.6 has mandatory cloud connector, etc.
So, no, it is not just Microsoft who does this, if anything Microsoft is late to the party. Their market share and the possible extent of their data collection will make up for being late...
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A little to think about
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MAdu6GHV3tQ
Microsoft does not do anything special compared to any other.
But people seems to love to hate Microsoft
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These companies allow you to opt-out of targeted advertising, but it's hard to do. I opted out of Google's targeting, but am now getting all kinds of hotel ads on various websites, and a few in my e-mail, after making a Marriott reservation last week. It looks like Microsoft has picked up where Google left off. How do you opt-out of Microsoft's targeting?
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Posts : 1,811 W7 Ultimate SP1 (64 bit), LM 19.2 MATE (64 bit), W10 Home 1703 (64 bit), W10 Pro 1703 (64 bit) VMNew #57
I wasn't claiming that MS and/or W10 was involved in that incident.
It was a rebuttal to this statement, "You have nothing to worry about if you have nothing to hide."
It has never been an effective defence against tyrants, criminals and/or troublemakers.
For examples, see World history (1900 - present day) specifically:
- WWI (and lead up to)
- WWII (and lead up to)
- Stalin
- Mao Zedong (Mao Tse-tung)
- Pol Pot
- Rwanda
- Syria
- etc.
Most of the people killed in those events (or by the order of the listed individuals) were doing "nothing wrong".
As for the Fort Lee Scandal link, everyone in that district was punished because of information about one person's decision (Fort Lee's Mayor Mark Sokolich (D) for not endorsing Christie in the 2013 gubernatorial election).
No doubt most of the people in that area had "nothing to hide" and therefore had "nothing to fear".
People whovoted forsupported Christie were punished in exactly the same manner, as people whovoted againstwere opposed to him.
I seriously doubt that MS has any interest in me or my activities.
There are many others who are interested.
Why do you think keyloggers and spyware exist?
The problem with MS doing what others (Apple, Facebook, Google, etc.) are doing is that it creates yet another data stockpile that criminals can hack in their ongoing ID theft campaigns.
When your ID is used to commit fraud, who do you think the first person that the cops interview will be?
Also, as far as I'm aware, MS won't say where to find this data and how to check that it only contains what they claim.
Since some joker is bound to claim "that has nothing to do with IT", here are a couple of links:
A significant number of users were inconvenienced by these incidents.
Your opinion of your comedic prowess greatly exceeds the reality of it.
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. . .so true. . .
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