To: Mr. K
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Follow the money- how are they benefiting from this? 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.
But what do I know? I only know what I read on Free Republic threads! :-)
5 posted on
01/14/2016 5:59:32 AM PST by
dayglored
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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
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