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Re: Is Windows 10 really a privacy nightmare?
2015/08/20 11:49:04
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Re: Is Windows 10 really a privacy nightmare?
2015/08/20 12:10:17
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some things you cannot fix,
according to the article.
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Re: Is Windows 10 really a privacy nightmare?
2015/08/20 12:22:11
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batsbrew
some things you cannot fix,
according to the article.
Let them eat Cake I say!! 
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Re: Is Windows 10 really a privacy nightmare?
2015/08/20 12:30:04
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I SAY LET THEM EAT SOMETHING ELSE...........
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Re: Is Windows 10 really a privacy nightmare?
2015/08/20 14:16:13
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The price you pay for "free" upgrades. Or if you are not upgrading, the price you pay to support Microsoft as it struggles to find a way to make revenue with "software as a service." This is the model that has made FaceBook and Google a gazillion bucks. Suck up sales leads and sell them on to robo-callers, spammers, and popup artists. MS has no interest in your personal privacy; it has no interest in your person at all. When the world stopped talking about the rights of citizens, and began talking about consumer rights, the battle was already lost. If MS did not want to sell into the EU, you can be sure the options to turn off tracking would be locked down. If they could find a way to ring fence Windows so it could not use Google while avoiding a well funded anti-monopoly suit, Bing would be telling you where to shop instead.
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Re: Is Windows 10 really a privacy nightmare?
2015/08/20 16:05:35
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I have wondered what I have let myself in for, upgrading to W10.
On the one hand, I really do like how it looks and feels.
But, as much stuff that it's possible to turn off, there is some stuff that you just can't.
For instance, "Diagnostic and usage data" can only be set to "Basic," "Enhanced" and "Full." I would have been a lot happier if I could turn that off also. Like David has said above, this appears to be the price we are paying for so called "free" upgrades...
We can only see how this goes I suppose...
Thinking on, I have suddenly started receiving a couple of nuisance calls from peeps wanting to fix my "computer" problems... I wonder.........
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Re: Is Windows 10 really a privacy nightmare?
2015/08/20 16:16:37
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Thinking on, I have suddenly started receiving a couple of nuisance calls from peeps wanting to fix my "computer" problems... I wonder.........
.....if it's Doktor Avalanche 
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Re: Is Windows 10 really a privacy nightmare?
2015/08/21 22:52:26
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And the hits just keep on coming. Remember the updates you have no choice but to install, well Microsoft is no longer telling you what is in those patches. So some stuff that you can 'turn off' now may be disabled at a later date, despite how you have set it. Ars Technica has an article about this at http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2015/08/microsoft-has-no-plans-to-tell-us-whats-in-windows-patches/ Looks like I'll be staying with Win 7 or 8, and begin switching over to Linux full time (about all I have to do on Windows is Sonar. Everything else I can do in Linux)
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Re: Is Windows 10 really a privacy nightmare?
2015/08/21 23:25:35
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Hi, On both of my machines, I have turned off all of these options. The real kicker, for example, is if you use Word, Excel, or Outlook for free, and you do not own anything that you might create or invent in those pieces of software. I would be concerned with sending a piece of music as an attachment to a friend, and then it gets taken away from you. That alone is enough to scare me off the use of any Microsoft software, except Windows. And I'm not convinced that Apple is any safer. But I think the day is coming when it ends up in court, and on that day, the company will take a big hit ... but I think it will be too late ... the steal has already damaged your ability to continue and go with it. For now, I'm using Open Office, which has been my main for almost 5 years.
post edited by Moshkito - 2015/08/21 23:33:52
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Re: Is Windows 10 really a privacy nightmare?
2015/08/23 00:08:32
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Read the EULA for Win 10. There's a whole section that talks about taking MS to court. If you live in the USA you can't file a lawsuit against MS. They have binding arbitration to settle any disputes but will attempt to settle out of court. It also says that if you live in Canada you can refuse to accept updates and they tell you how. Disconnect your PC from the internet. It's not just MS. This is corporate behaviour in all aspects of our lives. Just ask the folks in California that will be taxed if they collect rain water. 
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Re: Is Windows 10 really a privacy nightmare?
2015/08/25 13:29:33
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ampfixer
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It's not just MS. This is corporate behaviour in all aspects of our lives. Just ask the folks in California that will be taxed if they collect rain water.
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There you have it ... the corporatization of America, and all the votes in America don't seem to care an iota ... but I bet you right now that the first politician to go against the corporate stuff, will probably get snuffed out very quickly on media and everywhere else ... with bad stories going back to the day the kid was born and had his/her first poop on the wrong place!
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Re: Is Windows 10 really a privacy nightmare?
2015/08/26 19:04:36
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The internet is.... get over it.
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Re: Is Windows 10 really a privacy nightmare?
2015/08/27 09:15:50
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Hi, Agreed. I do think that Microsoft one of these days, will pay a very hard price for any foul in the game! As others have and will. It's just a shame that Apple and Microsoft worked hard to kill anything Unix and the like, and preventing those folks from gaining a step or two with their work. I hope that as time goes by, this changes.
post edited by Moshkito - 2015/08/27 09:24:39
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Re: Is Windows 10 really a privacy nightmare?
2015/08/30 20:10:36
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Rest assured that the "powers that be" have bigger fish to fry than you and I.
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Re: Is Windows 10 really a privacy nightmare?
2015/09/02 16:19:30
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Re: Is Windows 10 really a privacy nightmare?
2015/09/02 17:33:18
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Time for all of you to head over to Beyond My DAW!
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Moshkito
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Re: Is Windows 10 really a privacy nightmare?
2015/09/04 10:40:28
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Hi,
The weird thing is folks in America, corporate folks in America and Europe, for example, not learning from the breaking up of Europe and Africa and Asia ... which was the dismantling of a bigger country in to many others ... and eventually, the corporate state will get the same treatment because people want, and eventually demand, different things that the government does not assist with. American politics, right now is about the corporations and ignore the individuals, who do not exist, or vote, or care!
Microsoft, will sooner or later, take a hit, and the sooner the better ... with many others ... because they have hurt other opportunities in the market ... and the history these days is that the corporate strength will not last as long and eventually will get busted up!
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Re: Is Windows 10 really a privacy nightmare?
2015/09/07 11:20:51
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This is a never ending story that continues to repeat itself. New ideas and development are almost always done with good intentions. That idea then gets manipulated and misused, normally by government, government agencies and military. If you don't like the new policies, I'd look closer at your government than I would Microsoft. I'm not saying corporations are not guilty, but they are generally after your money more than your intellect. The government wants the latter. Just like ISP's are forced to log all data and provide access to it, that move is now being made to computers in general... why - because the technology has opened that door. Have you ever been startled by Googles ads... the ones that show you EXACTLY what you were looking at earlier in the day. That's not evil, that's targeted marketing. BUT - that same information put in the wrong hands can do a lot of harm. Those that think staying on Windows 7 or 8 will be safer is fooling themselves. The user agreement can be changed at any time, with any update. If this is something that really concerns you, the only choice you really have is to unplug your machines from the internet. OK - keep one machine online for basic communication and Netflix.
post edited by codamedia - 2015/09/08 06:34:23
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Re: Is Windows 10 really a privacy nightmare?
2015/09/07 18:17:37
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codamedia
Those that think staying on Windows 7 or 8 will be safer is fooling themselves. The user agreement can be changed at any time, with any update. If you are going to be paranoid beyond belief, the only choice you really have is to unplug your machines from the internet. OK - keep one machine online for basic communication and Netflix.
There's more than paranoia where it makes sense to unplug from the net. Windows is especially known for bogging down as more and more updates are put on the system. Yet the main reason you have these updates is for 'security' cause of bad stuff on the net. Disconnect from the net, and you don't need to bother. There's not a lot I do anymore on the net (a few e-mails, a few forums, read some tech sites or news sites). I can do that on a netbook running Linux. Once I am done with my current project, think I will redo the main machine and not hook it to the net at all. That should help performance in a bunch of ways.
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