France Drops Windows 10 Privacy Case After Microsoft Changes Telemetry Settings (betanews.com)

Reader Mark Wilson writes: There have been lots of complaints about invasion of privacy since the release of Windows 10. Microsoft's telemetry lead to several lawsuits, including one from France's National Data Protection Commission which said Windows 10 was collecting 'excessive personal data' about users. But now the Commission Nationale de l'Informatique et des Libert's has decided to drop its case against Microsoft. The commission is happy that sufficient steps have been taken to reduce the amount of data that is collected and users are now informed about data collection.

Comments

What happens when they re-enable it?

[opus_magnum]

Another lawsuit?

Re:What happens when they re-enable it?

[davester666]

1. It's still enabled. You can't really turn it off, short of disconnecting the computer from the internet.
2. You still don't know exactly what Microsoft is transmitting to their servers. It's just "less than before".
3. There is no limit as to what is transmitted to their servers, nor will there be any notification or approval required when they decide to increase what is being transmitted to their servers.

Re:What happens when they re-enable it?

[rtb61]

How about the far more realistic version. M$ has now given French security forces full access to that data gathered so the French government waffled some shit and pretended everything is fine. The same as in the US, the US government is doing nothing because they have a pipeline into the data being collected by M$ invading the privacy of people's homes and as an extra special add on, provide custom compulsory update packages targeted at individuals across the globe to allow them to hack into Windows 10 machines at will, each and every compulsory software install cycle (not just bug fixes, not just security fixes but any software M$ wants to install on your computer and fuck your permission). So how does the French government, feel about compulsory software installs without the permission of users or the slightest bit of control by the French government (now about a friendly little Freedom Fries ad on French computers when the government of France refuses to join a US war for profit).

Wow

[fahrbot-bot]

Someone finally surrendered to France. :-)

Re:QLEB?

[Frederic54]

liberté, but you know /. only handle ASCII from 32 to 127 or something like if it was 1970

Reality check

[WaffleMonster]

Telling someone your going to do something first before you do it does not legitimize the underlying action.

Amount of data required to be sent to Microsoft to ensure proper operation of Windows is 0 bytes.

Take it or leave it demands are not choices to the extent Windows is not a commodity and leaving it isn't a viable option.

Windows 10 is malware.

Re:QLEB?

[ortholattice]

liberté, but you know /. only handle ASCII from 32 to 127 or something like if it was 1970

Most computers in 1970 only handled 32 to 96 (no lowercase nor the exotic graphics characters {, |, }, ~ ). The IBM EBCDIC punch cards and mainframe machines were also only uppercase back then, although the set of graphics characters was slight different from the ASCII ones. Same with teletype machines, line printers, and video monitors. I would guess it was around mid to late 70s when lowercase became widely available. I think some experimental mainframe systems like Multics had lowercase typewriter terminals in the late 60s, and I guess Unix did too, although there were methods to use it with an uppercase-only terminal. The uppercase legacy lives on some systems that to this day send you invoices with everything in uppercase.