Please, don’t forget Windows 10

Mar 28, 2018 28 Comments

Reality check time. 🤣

Imagine that you plugged in an USB drive to your PC and Microsoft knows about it. Microsoft knows your USB drive vendor, description, and more. 😜

Imagine that you used an App yesterday and Microsoft knows all about your navigation in that app and your usage.

Oh they have your browsing history too 🎉

Oh damn, there are more... it’s like everything you do on your PC is logged and sent back to Microsoft... shhh...... keep people asleep while data get streamed to the cloud.

Welcome to the world of FREE Windows 10 updates.

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/configuration/windows-diagnostic-data-1703

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TOP 28 Comments
  • Microsoft / Eng
    TurboLOL

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    TurboLOL
    At least it's used for product improvement, not sold to Cambridge Analytica
    Mar 28, 2018 6
  • Airbnb
    Dung

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    Dung
    And... all anonymized, none of which can be used for anything other than reliability/perf/usability improvements. Anything personally identifiable, like a phone number, is scrubbed out at the OS level before it’s uploaded.

    Contrast to FB which deliberately tries to collect as much personal info about you as possible and then provides it to the world in order to advance their platform. It’s not comparable.
    Mar 29, 2018 6
    • Facebook
      Facebook ♨

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      Facebook ♨
      Windows 10 has ads. Your data is used to provide personalized ads and services to you. Don’t get fooled by the word “diagnostics”, it’s misleading users. You can turn it off though.

      “Not all Windows 10 users may know, but they are being watched by default. However, Windows 10 claims to be a very secure operating system with detailed privacy settings, there are still many things one needs to be alert about. Windows 10 actually collects more of your browsing data, location history, communication history and contacts details from messages and apps, than its predecessors.”

      http://www.thewindowsclub.com/opt-out-stop-personalized-windows-10
      Mar 29, 2018
    • We at MSFT WDG don't care how often you watched your porn sites. As well your userid is in the vault. Since GDPR is active no one at ms will risk to pay fines from 3% of total revenue for such. Our own marketing departments are not allowed to use any telemetry data to do targeting marketing. They want but they are not getting it. Trust me I know what I am talking about. Do we use this data for device and service health . Ohhh yes. But we do not care much of the individual using the device and the PII data are scrambled by the services...
      Mar 29, 2018
  • Microsoft
    yMcg47

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    BIO
    Amicitiae nostrae memoriam spero sempiternam fore
    yMcg47
    Man no one likes this kinda logging but I can’t believe this coming from a fb person. Especially after recent events...

    Msft’s privacy policies are like fort knox compared to fb’s
    Mar 28, 2018 7
    • Microsoft
      yMcg47

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      BIO
      Amicitiae nostrae memoriam spero sempiternam fore
      yMcg47
      Wait a minute. It was a response to a fb employee throwing shit...

      Being proud of where you work... hah you must not have seen my other answers.

      Grow up and we can continue this conversation. Immaturity makes it less fun.
      Mar 29, 2018
    • Square / Eng
      SQ

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      SQ
      Damn, I'd hate to work under semicomp if he's actually in management.
      Mar 29, 2018
  • And that comes from a FB employee. Amazing..
    Mar 28, 2018 2
    • Amazon
      rhuW84

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      rhuW84
      Microsoft employee doesn't like criticism about Microsoft. Shocking.
      Mar 29, 2018
    • Microsoft
      yMcg47

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      BIO
      Amicitiae nostrae memoriam spero sempiternam fore
      yMcg47
      You should see the msft channel. Pretty much everyone bashes msft except for one or 2 people which may very well be satya’s other personas ;)

      The thing that is weird here is this comes from fb... this is like the charcoal calling the marble black.
      Mar 29, 2018
  • U mad?
    Mar 28, 2018 0