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To: dayglored
Given the amount of useful private marketing-relevant and private-communications-relevant data they send back as "telemetry" by default, I'd say it's a combination of advertisers and the government.

I keep hearing about this, but I have a hard time believing that MS would open themselves up to the legal liability of potentially capturing HIPAA/PCI information.

16 posted on 01/14/2016 6:44:59 AM PST by tacticalogic ("Oh bother!" said Pooh, as he chambered his last round.)
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To: tacticalogic
> ...I have a hard time believing that MS would open themselves up to the legal liability of potentially capturing HIPAA/PCI information.

I think they're taking this tack:

  1. Statistically it'll be a small amount/number of cases.
  2. Most of those won't realize we've lifted their private data.
  3. This is what we pay our lawyers for.
In other words, "It's the cost of doing business".
27 posted on 01/14/2016 10:06:47 AM PST by dayglored ("Listen. Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government.")
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