The Guardian: From personalised ads in Solitaire to an address book-reading personal assistant, some users are unhappy with Windows 10’s approach to privacy
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the data collection is a bit crazy. even if turning everything off im not sure if they still collecting it some other way.
Giving it out for free sounded really sketchy to me so I didn't upgrade. I'm happily running windows 7.
I don't really care , I think Windows 10 is awesome.
BTW, I choose the customized installation turning off all information sharing.
1984 will come to pass not forcefully, but willingly. With masses choosing for more convience at the expense of privacy.
What they have done should be criminal. Everything should be turned off by default not on.
And on top of that when you do the install and it asked you what you want even if you turn all the options it gives you off TONS more is actually left on, by far more data collection is left on than what is turned off when you select to turn all the things off it allows you too.
And the most worrying thing is the forced updates, which are basically creating the worlds largest bot-net since every PC now basically has the exact same configuration. And if that's not bad enough the system is designed to allow updates to come from sources other than Microsoft (you have the option to have your own PC send updates to other peoples PC's like a torrent system) as soon as people hack and break the protection they will easily be able to send out false updates and viruses through that system.