http://thenextweb.com/microsoft/2015/07/29/wind-nos/
Some troubling things from this article. quote:When device encryption is turned on, Windows 10 automatically encrypts the drive its installed on and generates a BitLocker recovery key. That's backed up to your OneDrive account.quote:Sign into Windows with your Microsoft account and the operating system immediately syncs settings and data to the company's servers. That includes your browser history, favorites and the websites you currently have open as well as saved app, website and mobile hotspot passwords and Wi-Fi network names and passwords.quote:Turn on Cortana, the virtual assistant, and you're also turning on a whole host of data sharing:quote:The updated terms also state that Microsoft will collect information from you and your devices, including for example 'app use data for apps that run on Windows and data about the networks you connect to.'quote:Windows 10 generates a unique advertising ID for each user on each device. That can be used by developers and ad networks to profile you. Again, you can turn this off in settings, but you need to know where to look:Several of these things - especially the advertiser ID thing - have caused other companies some egg on face in the past. It is a bit troubling that all this stuff is turned on by default and lets face it 98% of people will take the default settings.
I'm not sure that the privacy *changes* between Windows 8.1 and Windows 10 are being discussed? are they? where?
For an OS that is getting blasted out to the whole world in a record torrent of data we're all rushing to agree with a possibly radically tweaked data sharing and policy agreement that few have read and fewer still understand?
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