Windows 10 isn't trying to invade your privacy

[Vy]

This is starting to piss me off.

 

People. Understand that Windows has been collecting "usage metrics" since fucking Windows XP SP3. They don't care about you. They care about the crashes and security holes.

 

What they're interested in is statistics and fuck ups. MS apps or kernel crashes are important to them (system should send a lot of that automatically on a home install) Win 7 etc all asked at the time. (Would you like to submit this crash report etc?). It costs MS a fucking fortune to maintain whilst real security holes stayed there cos people didn't want to patch them (MS IZ SPYING ON MEH!).

 

 

 

@Caution Please change the 'you' in the title to 'your'. Thank you!

[Pan32]

 

There are risks and there are benefits. Some people choose not to share this anonymous information, and if they choose to do so, they have the right to it. However, even with all privacy properties turned off, microsoft is still collecting information, which should not be happening. It's a principle issue, not so much a security one.

[Vy]

There are risks and there are benefits. Some people choose not to share this anonymous information, and if they choose to do so, they have the right to it. However, even with all privacy properties turned off, microsoft is still collecting information, which should not be happening. It's a principle issue, not so much a security one.

No. You can turn it off so it doesn't transmit anything.

 

The thing is they don't care about you as a user. They don't even list you by name of by product key or something similar. They have an ID for you and that's it. Even if you don't fucking turn it off I don't see any reason why it would considered a breach of your privacy.

 

You do realize that Facebook and Google also collect your information, right? You ain't forced to use their services either.

[Pan32]

No. You can turn it off so it doesn't transmit anything.

 

The thing is they don't care about you as a user. They don't even list you by name of by product key or something similar. They have an ID for you and that's it. Even if you don't fucking turn it off I don't see any reason why it would considered a breach of your privacy.

 

You do realize that Facebook and Google also collect your information, right? You ain't forced to use their services either.

 

People checked with traffic sniffers and they are still sending some information to their servers, thats why some people concerned with security first complained, then some people threw some drama saying that they were sending super secret information about the files of your computer.

 

Every single company collects information, especially google on android.

[Bullet Wound]

No. You can turn it off so it doesn't transmit anything.

 

The thing is they don't care about you as a user. They don't even list you by name of by product key or something similar. They have an ID for you and that's it. Even if you don't fucking turn it off I don't see any reason why it would considered a breach of your privacy.

 

You do realize that Facebook and Google also collect your information, right? You ain't forced to use their services either.

 

You actually can't turn it off unless you have a pro license. If you're a home user it will say it's off, but still have a value behind the scenes of on.

 

They literally send screenshots of what you're doing every few minutes back to Microsoft. Of your desktop. A Russian guy found this out months ago, and a new "feature" of Cortana flat out admits the desktop helper monitors your open windows.

 

You're likely right an actual person won't ever see it, but that prospect alone is just unsettling.

[Vy]

They literally send screenshots of what you're doing every few minutes back to Microsoft. Of your desktop. A Russian guy found this out months ago, and a new "feature" of Cortana flat out admits the desktop helper monitors your open windows.

No they don't...

[Goku]

@Bullet Wound could you provide a source to that claim? I tried googling one to back your post up, but couldn't find anything.

@Vy http://www.techrepublic.com/article/windows-10-now-lets-you-turn-off-tracking-but-only-if-youre-a-business/ partially backs up the claim of not being able to disable 100% of data collection as it says

 

Users of Home and Pro versions of Windows 10 can only reduce this data collection to the "Basic" level. On this setting, Windows 10 collects information about security settings, quality-related info (such as crashes and hangs), and application compatibility. Microsoft describes this information as being essential for maintaining and improving the quality of Windows 10 and says that only "anonymous identifiers" are transmitted.

[Vy]

Oh no. They collect information about their kernel crashes.

 

What ever the fuck are we going to do!

 

(oh and you can turn that off too)

 

https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/mt577208%28v=vs.85%29.aspx

 

Stop imagining MS gives a shit about you. They only give a shit about their OS, which they kinda need to fix if it crashes or has various other problems.

 

• Block all outgoing responses to a microsoft site using a whitelist firewall.
  
• Use enterprise edition and group policy agents.
  
• disable (or unregister though don't advise that one) the services responsible for feeding telemetry in the first place.
  
• rename the exe's and remove sys permissions from the directory.
  
• gut the registry.
  
• modify local machine and security policy.
  

[Goku]

@Vy I really do love reading your posts. You're aggressive for the sake of being aggressive. For some reason you have this fucked up mentality embedded in your mind that it's you against the world. Literally not a single person ITT is disagreeing with you on the point of the data they're collecting being important and no one is claiming that they are out to get us. Hell, I've not seen a single person on this website anywhere claim that. Stop trying to act like Mr. Smart tough guy. No one gives a shit. You're trying to hard, and it's coming off as you being stuck up, and an idiot.

[Vy]

@Vy I really do love reading your posts. You're aggressive for the sake of being aggressive. For some reason you have this fucked up mentality embedded in your mind that it's you against the world. Literally not a single person ITT is disagreeing with you on the point of the data they're collecting being important and no one is claiming that they are out to get us. Hell, I've not seen a single person on this website anywhere claim that. Stop trying to act like Mr. Smart tough guy. No one gives a shit. You're trying to hard, and it's coming off as you being stuck up, and an idiot.

I am just tired from work most of the time so I am pissy.

 

I wouldn't say it's "me against the world", more like against a bunch of people who pretend they understand an OS based on reading a few articles and the parrot the idiocy that is written in them. (plz dont do that)

 

Don't take what I write so personally. Pretty sure you're not that young.