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Microsoft Admits Windows 10 Automatic Spying Cannot Be Stopped
Forbes ^ | NOV 2, 2015 @ 12:00 PM | By Gordon Kelly

Posted on 11/03/2015 12:12:19 PM PST by Swordmaker

Last week changes to the Windows 10 upgrade path mean it is going to become increasingly difficult for any non-techy users to avoid being pushed to Microsoft new operating system. But given Windows 10 is better than Windows 7 and Windows 8, why would that be a problem? Because of policies like this…

Speaking to PC World, Microsoft Corporate Vice President Joe Belfiore explained that Windows 10 is constantly tracking how it operates and how you are using it and sending that information back to Microsoft by default. More importantly he also confirmed that, despite offering some options to turn elements of tracking off, core data collection simply cannot be stopped:

“In the cases where we’ve not provided options, we feel that those things have to do with the health of the system,” he said. “In the case of knowing that our system that we’ve created is crashing, or is having serious performance problems, we view that as so helpful to the ecosystem and so not an issue of personal privacy, that today we collect that data so that we make that experience better for everyone.”

This backs up detailed data that some had chosen to dismiss as conspiracy theories.

(Excerpt) Read more at forbes.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Computers/Internet
KEYWORDS: billgates; gatesfoundation; microsoft; netneutrality; windows; windows10; windows10spying; windowspinglist
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1 posted on 11/03/2015 12:12:19 PM PST by Swordmaker
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To: Swordmaker

I like my WIN7 Prof and new laptop. It should last at least as long as the newest gem in the MicrostuffIT product line.


2 posted on 11/03/2015 12:15:27 PM PST by NormsRevenge (SEMPER FI!! - Monthly Donors Rock!!)
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To: Swordmaker

I’m sorry Dave, I cannot allow you to disconnect me.


3 posted on 11/03/2015 12:16:21 PM PST by MUDDOG
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To: dayglored; ShadowAce

Dayglored, Shadow Ace gave me a heads up on this. . . this needs a ping to your Ping list ASAP. Microsoft’s Corporate Vice President Joe Belfiore admitted that users cannot disable the tracking installed on Windows 10, even if they turn off all the user options for such tracking. “core data collection simply cannot be stopped. . .” Translation: you will be watched. OOPS! I wonder if one can just turn off WIFI, disconnect Ethernet, Bluetooth, etc., do all that, will MS Windows 10 just refuse to operate??? LOL!


4 posted on 11/03/2015 12:18:29 PM PST by Swordmaker ( This tag line is a Microsoft insult free zone... but if the insults to Mac users continue...)
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To: MUDDOG
I'm sorry Dave, I cannot allow you to disconnect me.

Predecessor to Skynet????

5 posted on 11/03/2015 12:19:39 PM PST by Swordmaker ( This tag line is a Microsoft insult free zone... but if the insults to Mac users continue...)
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To: Swordmaker

I guess I should go to Linux mint or Ubuntu. The only thing I really use windoze for is to run Sony Vegas for video editing and watching DVDs.


6 posted on 11/03/2015 12:19:48 PM PST by wally_bert (I didn't get where I am today by selling ice cream tasting of bookends, pumice stone & West Germany)
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To: Swordmaker

I liked HAL!


7 posted on 11/03/2015 12:20:44 PM PST by MUDDOG
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To: Swordmaker

Winston Smith please phone home. Or better yet, stay where you are cause MS knows where you are and what you are doing.


8 posted on 11/03/2015 12:20:59 PM PST by Purdue77 ("... shall not be infringed.")
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To: MUDDOG

9 posted on 11/03/2015 12:22:20 PM PST by newfreep (TRUMP/Cruz 2016 - "Evil succeeds when good men do nothing" - Edmund Burke)
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To: Swordmaker

They’re are making it hard to embrace 10, even though it’s possibly their best os yet. So much bad pr as far as the eye can see. Their dumb moves are similar to mistakes made with Xbox 1 rollout, which is falling further behind the ps4 by the month.


10 posted on 11/03/2015 12:22:57 PM PST by catbertz
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To: wally_bert

Hey, me too. Good software package.

I am running an older version and so I am sticking with XP for now.


11 posted on 11/03/2015 12:24:10 PM PST by dhs12345
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To: Swordmaker

I blocked a bunch of stuff at the Netgear Router. I cannoty put it past Microsoft to use dynamic updating of its call home list.


12 posted on 11/03/2015 12:24:53 PM PST by Dr. Sivana (There is no salvation in politics)
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To: Swordmaker

FUGates


13 posted on 11/03/2015 12:26:57 PM PST by WKUHilltopper (And yet...we continue to tolerate this crap...)
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To: Swordmaker

I stopped it using Red Hat


14 posted on 11/03/2015 12:31:19 PM PST by taxcontrol ( The GOPe treats the conservative base like slaves by taking their votes and refuses to pay)
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To: Swordmaker

Turn the computer off. Voila!


15 posted on 11/03/2015 12:33:29 PM PST by Fester Chugabrew (Diversity is Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama sharing the same jail cell.)
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To: MUDDOG
I liked HAL!

I liked HAL too. . . very sympathetic as he was put down. But HAL was totally amoral.

16 posted on 11/03/2015 12:33:39 PM PST by Swordmaker ( This tag line is a Microsoft insult free zone... but if the insults to Mac users continue...)
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To: dhs12345

I’ve learned to really like Vegas editor. It beats Pinnacle. It can handle 4k raw video extremely well.


17 posted on 11/03/2015 12:48:13 PM PST by wally_bert (I didn't get where I am today by selling ice cream tasting of bookends, pumice stone & West Germany)
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To: wally_bert

I LITTERALLY just downloaded it an hour ago. I have a legacy IMB Thinkpad that I wanted to use, and thought maybe Linux was the way to go. I’ve been learning Linux on a Raspberry Pi. It’s been fun.

I get why the Linux community likes it better. Windows, in a very real sense, keeps you stupid about how your computer works. Many, many people don’t care how it works. I get that.

However, once you know, wow is Linux easier to use and maintain.


18 posted on 11/03/2015 12:51:55 PM PST by RinaseaofDs
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To: Swordmaker
Microsoft Admits Windows 10 Automatic Spying Cannot Be Stopped

Sure it can. Go back to XP or upgrade to Linux.

19 posted on 11/03/2015 12:53:44 PM PST by DiogenesLamp ("of parents owing allegiance to no other sovereignty.")
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To: catbertz
They’re are making it hard to embrace 10, even though it’s possibly their best os yet. So much bad pr as far as the eye can see. Their dumb moves are similar to mistakes made with Xbox 1 rollout, which is falling further behind the ps4 by the month.

I hate Microsoft, and I want them to die.

20 posted on 11/03/2015 12:55:19 PM PST by DiogenesLamp ("of parents owing allegiance to no other sovereignty.")
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