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Microsoft finally responds to accusations that Windows 10 spies on users
Yahoo News ^ | 09/28/2015 | Jacob Siegal

Posted on 09/28/2015 1:58:49 PM PDT by SeekAndFind

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To: SkyDancer

When I set mine up it asked me all kinds of questions as to level of privacy and I had no problem with it.


21 posted on 09/28/2015 2:41:10 PM PDT by Hildy
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To: Ray76
MS had its day.

I'll believe that when someone can show me the mythical open source Exchange killer.

22 posted on 09/28/2015 2:41:18 PM PDT by tacticalogic ("Oh bother!" said Pooh, as he chambered his last round.)
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To: mad_as_he$$
Technically: Bottle, glass, pour and drink! ;-)
23 posted on 09/28/2015 2:43:08 PM PDT by roamer_1 (Globalism is just Socialism in a business suit.)
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To: driftdiver
Yup. Keeps track of any internet searches.

And it keeps track of where you are — GPS.

24 posted on 09/28/2015 2:43:48 PM PDT by dhs12345
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To: mad_as_he$$

Branch water.


25 posted on 09/28/2015 2:44:15 PM PDT by Paladin2 (my non desktop devices are no longer allowed to try to fix speling and punctuation, and my grandma.)
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To: SeekAndFind

IN ORDER TO DELIVER ADVERTISING TO YOU.

I guess scanning your emails, files etc is allowed as long as they are not targeting ads at you?

That’s a hole big enough to drive the internet through.


26 posted on 09/28/2015 2:44:50 PM PDT by BereanBrain
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To: SeekAndFind
I don't know about that, but evidently Microsoft supports Muslims that bring fake bombs to school.


27 posted on 09/28/2015 2:45:08 PM PDT by GrandJediMasterYoda (B. Hussein Obama: 20 acts of Treason and counting.)
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To: Zathras
All coming together isn't it — Microsoft and the NSA, Bill Gates/Common Core.

I guess I was naïve to think that I still had some privacy.

28 posted on 09/28/2015 2:47:14 PM PDT by dhs12345
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To: SeekAndFind

Microsoft has been feeding our data to the government for years. Lo0ok at your cookies before you have the machine erase them. Lok for one title ‘usagovrssfeed’ ...


29 posted on 09/28/2015 2:49:46 PM PDT by MHGinTN (Is it really all relative, Mister Einstein?)
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To: SeekAndFind

Windows 10 uploads the names of your files.
They sell the data to whoever. I do not believe a word that these files are for anything but selling YOU.
Why gather them then?


30 posted on 09/28/2015 2:51:21 PM PDT by minnesota_bound
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To: MHGinTN

bump


31 posted on 09/28/2015 2:52:49 PM PDT by apocalypto
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To: grania

I get Jared Fogle’s profile.


32 posted on 09/28/2015 2:53:41 PM PDT by Lx (Do you like it? Do you like it, Scott? I call it, "Mr. & Mrs. Tenorman Chili.")
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To: SeekAndFind

“The check is in the mail and.....and......what.... was that other statement that goes along with it?”

Only fools believe Microsoft’s lies.


33 posted on 09/28/2015 2:57:22 PM PDT by DH (Once the tainted finger of government touches anything the rot begins)
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To: Hildy

I had it loaded on one of my Aspire notebooks but hadn’t done anything with it yet.


34 posted on 09/28/2015 2:59:32 PM PDT by SkyDancer
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To: SeekAndFind
one more reason i have a TracPhone and run XP
35 posted on 09/28/2015 3:05:27 PM PDT by Chode (Stand UP and Be Counted, or line up and be numbered - *DTOM* -w- NO Pity for the LAZY)
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To: grania
It’s creepy that whatever I click on, I get ads that involve my profile.

Yeah. Had a squirrel take up residence in my attic, so I went online to research live traps, types prices, etc. Now I get squirrel trap ads on most websites I visit.

36 posted on 09/28/2015 3:16:09 PM PDT by JimRed (Excise the cancer before it kills us; feed & water the Tree of Liberty! TERM LIMITS NOW & FOREVER!)
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To: SeekAndFind

no mention that KB3068708; 3022345; 3075249; 30801498
patches make Windows 8.1\8\7 spyware turned on by default.


37 posted on 09/28/2015 3:16:46 PM PDT by stylin19a (obama = Fredo Smart)
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To: SeekAndFind

[[“is encrypted in transit to our servers, and then stored in secure facilities.”]]

Well now, We certainly feel much safer now, losing our privacy to Microsoft- they encrypt it-

Home Depot, Target Stores, etc etc etc were all ‘encrypted’ too-


38 posted on 09/28/2015 3:18:53 PM PDT by Bob434
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To: Chode

Doesn’t matter if you don’t run Microsoft browsers or not. Firefox now runs a “google pref cookie” that is automatically loaded with the browser. NSA uses it to track people. You can’t not load the with firefox now. Most other browsers are doing the exact same thing, now making the google pref cookie part of the browser itself. You don’t see the cookie, you can’t delete the cookie.

The other day people were complaining that FR was showing up as a Malware site. The google cookie had transmitted that it had listed FR as a site that linked to another Malware site. (Aim.org).

If you don’t have a google cookie right now sending a signal that the government is reading I want to know how you are doing it.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3342129/posts


39 posted on 09/28/2015 3:19:16 PM PDT by LowOiL ("Let us do evil that good may come"? ....condemnation is just - Romans 3:8)
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To: BBB333
Turn off your cookies or use in private browsing.

Don't you believe it. Google pref cookies are not enbedded in browsers like Firefox and others. Google has paid them to make it where you can't get rid of the cookie. It does not show up in the regular cookie folder and even if you dig it out it reloads with restart of your browser.

http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2012/02/28/the-google-cookie-that-seems-to-come-out-of-nowhere/

40 posted on 09/28/2015 3:29:08 PM PDT by LowOiL ("Let us do evil that good may come"? ....condemnation is just - Romans 3:8)
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