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France: Windows 10 Collects 'Excessive Personal Data', Issues Microsoft With Formal Warning (betanews.com)
France's National Data Protection Commission (CNIL) has ordered Microsoft to "stop collecting excessive data and tracking browsing by users without consent," adding that Microsoft must comply with the French Data Protection Act within next three months. BetaNews reports: In addition to this, the chair of CNIL has notified Microsoft that it needs to take "satisfactory measures to ensure the security and confidentiality of user data." The notice comes after numerous complaints about Windows 10, and a series of investigations by French authorities which revealed a number of failings on Microsoft's part. Microsoft is accused of not only gathering excessive data about users, but also irrelevant data. The CNIL points to Windows 10's telemetry service which gathers information about the apps users have installed and how long each is used for. The complaint is that "these data are not necessary for the operation of the service."
france will become silent and declare ms is a strategic partner in fighting terrorism. Until then, it intrudes privacy.
Anyway, everybody who wants to protect their data should use linux.
Th problem is you'll start caring when they knock you out.
Maybe they won't, but some people prefer to avoid the risk.
Something I have notices is that people don't have "anything to hide" until someone takes something they, in fact, do have to hide, such as the document they were working on, their credit card numbers, or their kids' school.
People who think all the privacy pundits want is to be able to cover up their crime and porn are in for an extremely nasty surprise someday - and possibly sooner than they think, especially with the way that so much on the Internet is attempting to pull off thought policing these days.
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