Posted on 07/20/2016 3:48:24 PM PDT by Dalberg-Acton
After accusations that Windows 10 collects too much data about users, France's National Data Protection Commission (CNIL) has order Microsoft to comply with the French Data Protection Act within three months. The company has been ordered to "stop collecting excessive data and tracking browsing by users without their consent".
In addition to this, the chair of CNIL has notified Microsoft that it needs to take "satisfactory measures to ensure the security and confidentiality of user data". The notice comes after numerous complaints about Windows 10, and a series of investigations by French authorities which revealed a number of failings on Microsoft's part.
Microsoft is accused of not only gathering excessive data about users, but also irrelevant data. The CNIL points to Windows 10's telemetry service which gathers information about the apps users have installed and how long each is used for. The complaint is that "these data are not necessary for the operation of the service".
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Does wireshark only monitor traffic, or can it also prevent traffic with specific ip addresses, too?
#NEVERTEN
Oh go ahead! I am happily using a new computer Win7 I got last year! Have never heard from Windows or MS.
Guess that is because I never *activated* or registered.
Actually I didn’t know what those words meant until just now when I thought I would read what they were before posting this.
The first thing I did was shut off that auto update.
It only monitors. It is meant as a monitoring tool.
“The first thing I did was shut off that auto update.”
That would explain why you never got nagged by Microsoft to upgade to 10.
I’d like to have my automatic updates turned on, so that my Windows 7 operating system is kept up to date until 2020. I’ve only got another week level, and I can safely boot up the new computer without having to worry that it’ll be hijacked by Microsoft.
I went into control panel in Windows 10 and shut off all the data collection. Wicked easy!
How do you know it worked?
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