Posted on 07/30/2015 1:48:23 PM PDT by steve86
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Cortana is a sexy spy in the machine
Turn on Cortana, the virtual assistant, and you’re also turning on a whole host of data sharing:
To enable Cortana to provide personalized experiences and relevant suggestions, Microsoft collects and uses various types of data, such as your device location, data from your calendar, the apps you use, data from your emails and text messages, who you call, your contacts and how often you interact with them on your device.
Cortana also learns about you by collecting data about how you use your device and other Microsoft services, such as your music, alarm settings, whether the lock screen is on, what you view and purchase, your browse and Bing search history, and more.”
Lots of things can live in those two words “and more.” Also note that because Cortana analyzes speech data, Microsoft collects “your voice input, as well as your name and nickname, your recent calendar events and the names of people in your appointments, and information about your contacts including names and nicknames.”
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We will access, disclose and preserve personal data, including your content (such as the content of your emails, other private communications or files in private folders), when we have a good faith belief that doing so is necessary to protect our customers or enforce the terms governing the use of the services.
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So far, beautiful OS.
Yep, it’s lovely.
Got mine today. NERDGASM!
To be fair, this is present on any Apple device as well. If you use Siri, you’re consenting to the same data sharing as with Microsoft here.
I turned off Siri, and I’ll turn off Cortana when I go to W10. While I very much like text-to-speech for text messaging, the “inconvenience” of typing out my messages outweighs the hit to my privacy. For the same reason, I have no webcams or microphones connected to any of my home platforms.
My work grunt PCs & and laptops wont be upgraded until I can put 10 through its paces.
I did put 10 on my aspire switch last night and I adiosed the files to restore back, so it's no guts no glory on that.
Yeah, that’s why I said “on any OS”.
I presume Apple would need to collect similar data for it's Siri app to be able to perform the functions it does, and the same goes for Google for their "ok Google" and map functions.
Increased usability in locating businesses, services, contacts, and so on, especially in a mobile environment, requires more widespread use of various data.
So go ahead and dump Apple and Google Android while you're at it.
I like it.
And it’s worked perfectly for two days now.
Yep win 10 is a really nice OS.....Cortana can be turn off..its just MS version of Siri
Doesn’t it have to be turned on in the first place?
oh, man, he even poked his eyes out!
What about the file search puppy?
Walt Mossberg was on CNBC yesterday. He likes Win 10 but advised against installing it for several months until Microsoft gets all the bugs out. He said Cortana was very buggy.
If the information is there, it can be subpoenaed in a court case.
Good point.
I’m more interested in his advice on 12 gauge issues.
Mammoth bloatware, and you are sure of this?
Sure of what? So far W10 is working very well. I ran into some problems with the Nvidia graphics card originally, but that’s fixed now. Configuring the Edge browser was most of the remaining work required. No crashes, no BSOD.
Win-10: Where do I begin.
First, definition of fonts were not detailed, horribly corrupted.
I didn't have that problem with Win7.
Next, Aero Peek was gone also. Not sorry, I'm addicted to the Alt-Tab peek.
Slow, reboot, and startup, slower than Win7. Probably because I can tweek
in many ways including my bios.
Fugly all around. Customizing is gone, Win10 knows what you want already
so just sit down and shut up about it.
If I wanted a cell phone interface on a PC with all the limited trappings of
zero customizing, 10 would be it. No thanks.
Win7 smooth scrolling is a major factor to me, Alt-Tab, and the ability
to control more than programs allow, is for me. Old school, sure. but I don't
like an interface that controls me, and gives me extremely limited options.
Thank you so much! I am a control freak myself, so don’t try to control me. LOL
That Microsoft won't copy your data just because you unchecked that box. It wouldn't be the first time they ignored configuration controls.
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