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Put Down Your Coffee and Admire the Sheer Amount of Your Data Windows 10 Creators Update Will Slurp

posted by Fnord666 on Saturday April 08 2017, @03:48AM   Printer-friendly
from the thanks-Microsoft dept.

Phoenix666 writes:

Next week Microsoft will begin the slowish rollout of its big update to Windows 10, the Creators Update.

Right now, it's doing a little damage control, and preempting complaints about privacy, by listing the types of information its operating system will automatically and silently leak from PCs, slabs, and laptops back to Redmond.

When Windows 10 came out, Reg readers were alarmed by the volume of information the software was collecting and sending back to base. Ever since then, Microsoft has been fighting a PR battle to reassure people that such data slurping isn't all bad – it's "just" telemetry and diagnostics and potentially your files.

Now Redmond's had a little rethink for the Creators Update, and decided to come clean on exactly what the software will phone home – even insisting the closed-source operating system will scoop up less surveillance this time.

What makes you think it's your data?

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  • (Score: 2) by Pino P on Saturday April 08 2017, @05:06PM (2 children)

    by Pino P (4721) on Saturday April 08 2017, @05:06PM (#490899) Journal

    "I use iTunes Store and Fitbit Connect. Can you upgrade my laptop's Windows operating system to GNU/Linux and keep those working?"

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  • (Score: 1) by tftp on Saturday April 08 2017, @07:37PM

    by tftp (806) on Saturday April 08 2017, @07:37PM (#490942) Homepage

    I have a Garmin Vívosmart HR+ with GPS. It is accurate, as opposed to Fitbit. Same story: the browser plugin works on Windows, but not on Linux. I looked around, some people attempted various projects, but all in all it requires support of the manufacturer to do a good job.

    But why to look at fitness bands or other odd hardware - I cannot even connect to my company's VPN from Linux Mint 17.3. It connects briefly, works, but in about 1 minute the connection is dropped. It is a known issue with many possible causes. The only thing I do not know is the solution :-( Naturally, the same VPN (L2TP/IPSec with PSK) works fine with any Windows client and is used by many people daily. Do I have to debug OpenVPN now? Why does the same work on Windows?

  • (Score: 2) by butthurt on Sunday April 09 2017, @06:07AM

    by butthurt (6141) on Sunday April 09 2017, @06:07AM (#491094) Journal

    > iTunes Store

    A quick Web search reveals there's a HOWTO for that:

    https://andrewhickey.info/2014/12/03/howto-access-the-itunes-store-in-gnulinux/ [andrewhickey.info]

    Another option, of course, is to get a Macintosh computer.