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Massive Windows 10 News Hides 5 Nasty Surprises

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Yes, Microsoft admitted it not only logs its users time on Windows 10 but also their time using Microsoft Edge… and gaming… and streaming games… and counting your search queries… and every single time a user opens a photo.

Understandably perturbed by this BetaNews took Microsoft to task on these revelations and asked if it would like to “explain how it came about the information, and why it is being collected in the first place”. Microsoft’s official response: “Thank you for your patience as I looked into this for you. Unfortunately my colleagues cannot provide a comment regarding your request. All we have to share is this Windows blog post.”

To which BetaNews makes a very fair conclusion: “Microsoft’s spying is intrusive enough to reveal how long you have been using Windows 10, but the company is not willing to be open about the collection of this data.”

Consequently the next obvious point to ponder is: If Microsoft is happy to disclose this data without saying how it was attained, what else does it access and track without user knowledge? Given Microsoft already admits much of its automatic spying cannot to turned off, just how many more metrics and how much user data is it gathering from every Windows 10 device? [more]
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Source: www.forbes.com/sites/gordonkelly/2016/01/06/windows-10-spying-secrets-revealed (Be careful going here,I have read FORBES is sending crap to people who visit it but thats where the article is,I tried to find it elsewhere!!!)
 
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I subscribe to Forbes online, and aside from an occasional offer for the print version, I've not had any spam sent to me from logged in or non-logged in sessions.

As for the article, doesn't sound like Microsoft is playing nice, but I would guess that they think since Google can monitor Google or Chrome usage without much uproar, why shouldn't an all-pervasive OS? Another reason I'm sticking with Win 7 as long as I can.
 
Well Im sticking with MS xp just to play Silent Hunter 3, and Linux that I can use and not be tracked at all.
 
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