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Microsoft Denies Windows 8 App Spying Via SmartScreen

Posted by timothy on from the wall-of-separation dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Microsoft has denied Windows 8 SmartScreen is spying after research by Nadim Kobeissi indicated otherwise." Whether it's "spying" or not, Microsoft is collecting certain information with SmartScreen — the key is what's done with it: The article quotes a Microsoft spokesperson: "We don’t use this data to identify, contact or target advertising to our users and we don’t share it with third parties."

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  1. Re:Disable it! by Zero__Kelvin · · Score: -1, Troll

    "Again, Microsoft is not reporting what you install. It is sending a filename and hash of executables you download via IE to Microsoft to compare against a blacklist."

    Holy shit. You are one stupid motherfucker!

    Plonk

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