Source.The CNIL has issued a formal notice to Microsoft stating that Windows 10 "must stop collecting excessive user data" from the ten million people in France who have the OS installed without their consent. The watchdog highlighted the fact that Microsoft records which apps users download and how long they spend on them.
Additionally, the CNIL wants Microsoft to stop using cookies to serve up ads without properly informing users and without offering a way to opt out. It also takes issue with the 4-digit PIN system that lets users access their Microsoft accounts; the Commission says it is insecure as it allows an unlimited number of login attempts.
Finally, there's the problem of Microsoft continuing to transfer French account holders' personal data to the US under the Safe Harbor agreement, despite the European Court of Justice ruling it invalid back in October last year.
but it's always made on every winX/privacy thread.
In what's being called by many French as "inhumane", they are threatening to reduce their lunch breaks to 3 hours.
TBH, why?
thank you for showing how apps on a smartphone are not comparable to an OS on a PC.Originally Posted by Defoler
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TBH, why?
Apple I understand, because they aren't there to sell us ads or gather information. But the rest, why not?
Facebook is collecting insane amount of data on us to show ads on Facebook. A recent example in my local news report, showed that if they talked about something either via Facebook messages or a phone call with a friend, or even have Facebook app active on the phone, Facebook is literally listening to them.
As an example they chose a random topic (like a travel location or some other topic), and within a couple of minutes Facebook mysteriously showed them an ad on the subject, after they talked, not searched in Facebook or looking at posts, but just talked face to face with someone.
That is not isolated example. There are many you can find.
They also showed that google is doing similar things with hangouts and private emails.
So why shouldn't they do it on the rest?
I mean, I understand why they won't. But why its an invalid comparison? MS is gather information to try and give us either ads or apps, Facebook is doing it to throw ads at us, google are doing the same with their ads service. Overall, it is pretty much the same.
Silence leaves people to come to their own conclusions resulting in misinformation that then gives MS a reason to not engage, which they can then just say that "we do not comment on speculation".
It will be covered in chocolate so dark, that light cannot escape its surface!
Except that is not the only thing China blocks lol.Originally Posted by Liranan
China, wisely, have blocked all M$py blocking by blocking all IP's to which telemetry data is being sent so M$py obtain very little information about China. Washington's lackeys in other parts of the world, however, aren't nearly as intelligent (in fact I'd rather have rats running the EU than the current fools who call themselves politicians).