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Microsoft Shares Windows 10 Telemetry Data With Third Parties (betanews.com)
An anonymous reader shares a report: To help with the smooth running of Windows 10, and to get an idea of how users interact with the operating system, Microsoft collects telemetry data, which includes information on the device Windows 10 is running on, a list of installed apps, crash dumps, and more. Telemetry data recorded by Windows 10 is, in a nutshell, just technical information about the device the OS is on, and how Windows and any installed software is performing, but it can occasionally include personal information. If you're worried about that, the news that Microsoft is sharing telemetry data with third parties might concern you. Microsoft recently struck a deal with security firm FireEye to provide access to Windows 10 telemetry data, in exchange for having FireEye's iSIGHT Threat Intelligence technology included in its Windows Defender Advanced Threat Protection service. WDATP is an enterprise security product that helps enterprises detect, investigate, and respond to advanced attacks on their networks and is different from the free version of Windows Defender. The upsides of the deal are obvious for both Microsoft and FireEye, and enterprise customers will certainly benefit from the partnership. It's not known exactly what data Microsoft has made available to FireEye, but in a detailed TechNet article on its telemetry gathering the software giant originally said: "Microsoft may share business reports with OEMs and third party partners that include aggregated and anonymized telemetry information. Data-sharing decisions are made by an internal team including privacy, legal, and data management."
Booth your examples are badly incorrect (government of Venezuela can be socialist only in the name, like in "Democratic Republic of North Korea" or the name of the nazi party in Germany before WWII)
I hate to break your heart, but the Nazis were socialists. Never mind the official name: National Socialist German Workers' Party. "Naaah, that's not socialist, not at all" (Gawd, are you Thalidomide-brained?!?!)
The National SOCIALIST German WORKERS' Party were proponents of:
- Wage and price controls
- Strict gun control
- Belief in the power of the state
- State-provided health care
- State-provided pensions
Naaah, they weren't "real Socialists" (that's your Thalidomide brain again...)
And the National SOCIALIST German WORKERS' Party used these standard tropes of leftists/"progressives" to divide people and stay in power:
- anti-Semitism
- Racist assignment of people by the color of skin (similar to #BlackLivesMatter, "blacks can't be racist", "white privilege", and other leftist/"progressive" race-baiting/apportioning crap)
Those last to are to better dehumanize the opponents of leftism/"progressivism".
There's a reason the largest totalitarian "massacre states" in history are leftist/"progressive" - the same baseless smug superiority that "I'm right, and you're so wrong you're evil" that drives someone to label supporters of a political opponent as a "basket of deplorables" or "bitter clingers" is the same baseless smug superiority that leads to stuffing six million Jews into ovens.
It's the LEFT that defines their opposition as less than human - and it's the LEFT that murders them by the millions.
Joe Stalin
Adolf Hitler
Mao Zedong
Pol Pot
ALL LEFTIST/"PROGRESSIVE" mass-murderers who stood for the overweening power of the state while dehumanizing their opponents.
How many movies did Hollywood make showing their wishful thinking that Obama get assassinated?
How many did Hollywood make of Bush II getting assassinated?
Which major party in the US engages in dehumanizing its opponents - just like the Nazis did?
Every damn time you senselessly call someone a racist because they don't agree with your redistributionist policies, you engage in the same dehumanization your fellow LEFTIST Adolf Hitler did to Jews.
It's the same. It's a smug "You're INFERIOR to me!" so it's OK to take your "fair share" from them. "Those rich WHITES didn't earn their wealth! They're RAAACISTS and we non-racists DESERVE it!"
Or, it's OK to gas you by the millions and burn your body is mass ovens.
Only a difference in degree. It's all the same logically - minimizing and dehumanizing someone.