Beats me what they would do with the info they collect at this house. We are totally boring, have no money and detest their weird clothes, movies,etc they try to foist on us.
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“Red flag”!
“Beats me what they would do with the info they collect at this house. “
Welllll. To start off, you’re a FReeper.....
It’s all a big bunch of crap spewed out by people who have a vested interest in promoting this paranoia.
Full disclosure: I work for Microsoft. What I am about to say represents my opinion, and not necessarily the policy or opinion of Microsoft Corporation.
Windows 10 has a feature called “Cortana”. This is a similar technology to Apple’s Siri (although much more powerful for reasons I won’t go into here). If Cortana is enabled, and you have a suitable microphone input to your computer, you can ask “her” to do things or to answer questions. For example, I just said “Hey Cortana. When is Ted Cruz birthday?”, and my computer came back, in Ted Cruz voice, to tell me that it is December 22, 1970.
Now for Cortana to give the best answers, it helps if it can learn things about you. Like what is your home and work address, what are your interests, etc. Collection of all of this info can be disabled, and it’s clearly spelled out where to do so. The other major flow of information is, of course, cloud data storage. Microsoft has included “OneDrive” in Windows 10, which you may or may not choose to enable. It is exactly the same thing as other services, including those available on multiple or alternate platforms like DropBox and iCloud - not a lick of difference.
But the anti-Microsoft douche-bags love to pile on and score some points for their security consulting business by calling this a huge threat to your privacy. In truth, it’s not any different to what any number of companies are doing, most of them with considerably less safeguards in place.
Microsoft spends a large fortune on securing its data centers. Every employee has to go through annual training on privacy and handling of data. Those with access to potentially private data have to go through an additional level of background checks. The training we take makes it very clear that if you break the rules, you are likely to get fired, and possibly even prosecuted and jailed.
The same ‘tards that are getting their panties in a bunch about this, will happily install any amount of 3rd-party software on their Apple, Linux, or Windows machine, without giving a second thought to what data those apps are collecting, and storing heaven only knows where, possibly on very unsecure servers. They have no issues entering every intimate detail into their dating profile on retardsonly.com, but oh boy, let them read an article about MICROSOFT and they get all fired up and start posting pictures of Linux desktops.
The truth is, that Windows 10 is a great operating system. It’s a fantastic product that represents the hard work of thousands of people, and a new direction for Microsoft. And even better, it’s free! I sincerely hope that the self-declared “experts” that write these articles won’t discourage you or others from giving it a try.