It looks like you're using an Ad Blocker.
Please white-list or disable AboveTopSecret.com in your ad-blocking tool.
Thank you.
Some features of ATS will be disabled while you continue to use an ad-blocker.
emphasis added
From the moment an account is created, Microsoft begins watching. The company saves customers’ basic information—name, contact details, passwords, demographic data and credit card specifics —but it also digs a bit deeper.
Other information Microsoft saves includes Bing search queries and conversations with the new digital personal assistant Cortana; contents of private communications such as email; websites and apps visited (including features accessed and length of time used); and contents of private folders. Furthermore, “your typed and handwritten words are collected,” the Privacy Statement says, which many online observers liken to a keylogger. Microsoft says they collect the information “to provide you a personalized user dictionary, help you type and write on your device with better character recognition, and provide you with text suggestions as you type or write.”
All this information doesn’t necessarily remain with just Microsoft. The company says it uses the data collected for three purposes: to provide and improve its services; to send customers personalized promotions; and to display targeted advertising, which sometimes requires the information be shared with third parties.
While users are given the choice to opt out of Microsoft’s various data collections, critics claim this isn’t enough. “[T]he Windows 10 upgrade experience...strips users of their choice by effectively overriding existing user preferences,” claims Chris Beard, CEO of the Mozilla Corporation, a Microsoft competitor.
originally posted by: AdmireTheDistance
None of this is a secret, and it's all outlined in their user agreements...
originally posted by: AdmireTheDistance
None of this is a secret, and it's all outlined in their user agreements...
originally posted by: metamagic
originally posted by: AdmireTheDistance
None of this is a secret, and it's all outlined in their user agreements...
Yes, their 45 page EUL that is so impenetrable that there is no realist expectation of people reading it. And that is what they are counting on, that no one will read it so when they do complain, MS can just say "But you agreed to it."
originally posted by: Nyiah
Your data is money nowadays. If you don't want it used like that, learn how to toss up brick walls. It's really not as complicated as people think to keep privacy invasions to a minimum.
originally posted by: SgtHamsandwich
I mean really? Who gives a crap. I use my computer to surf facebook, ats, and porn. If Microsoft want's to send me some suggestions for some new porn based on my preferences then I'm cool with that.
Only thing that erks me really, is I wish I was getting a small check cut my way for some of that data. I would like a piece of that pie since I put the time in to provide it.
originally posted by: Liquesence
a reply to: SgtHamsandwich
Just because you don't care doesn't mean other people won't care or don't know about it.
So it's an attempt to help people and bring to light what some people might not know.
Don't care or don't like it? Find another thread that you *do* care about.
originally posted by: AdmireTheDistance
None of this is a secret, and it's all outlined in their user agreements...