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posted by Fnord666 on Sunday October 15 2017, @09:18PM   Printer-friendly
from the I'm-shocked dept.

https://autoriteitpersoonsgegevens.nl/en/news/dutch-dpa-microsoft-breaches-data-protection-law-windows-10

Microsoft breaches the Dutch data protection law by processing personal data of people that use the Windows 10 operating system on their computers. This is the conclusion of the Dutch Data Protection Authority (DPA) after its investigation of Windows 10 Home and Pro. Microsoft does not clearly inform users about the type of data it uses, and for which purpose. Also, people cannot provide valid consent for the processing of their personal data, because of the approach used by Microsoft. The company does not clearly inform users that it continuously collects personal data about the usage of apps and web surfing behaviour through its web browser Edge, when the default settings are used. Microsoft has indicated that it wants to end all violations. If this is not the case, the Dutch DPA can decide to impose a sanction on Microsoft.

[...] Due to Microsoft's approach users lack control of their data. They are not informed which data are being used for what purpose, neither that based on these data, personalised advertisements and recommendations can be presented, if those users have not opted out from these default settings on installation or afterwards.

[...] Microsoft can use the collected data for the various purposes, described in a very general way. Through this combination of purposes and the lack of transparency Microsoft cannot obtain a legal ground, such as consent, for the processing of data.

also at RT


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  • (Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 16 2017, @02:12PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 16 2017, @02:12PM (#582995)

    If your under the impression you can install some third party hacks and that will make the things Redmond does without their users consent go away, you really don't know much about how their OS actually works. And at this point, I don't either since I stopped using it years ago. But what I do know is this:

    These guys back doored ten million consumer networks in an XP autoupdate and didn't tell anybody. Which is pretty much when I shifted to all Linux. Teredo was a crime against the Internet and the 4th amendment.

    A lot of it goes back to the browser wars. Microsoft changed its OS architecture to make everything a lib so that they're OS was resistant to claims of racketeering. Because well, they are big on racketeering.

    This meant that many insecure services became dependencies, instead of applications. So they install insecure shit, and then when you uninstall it, they reinstall it again with the next update. Again, without your consent, or even knowledge.

    What your looking at, is software written on the basis of market theory. And at that level market theory is really political theory. And most of that is just narcicism wrapped up in fancy metaphor. It isn't that the code is bad. It is that the code is modeling bad theory.

    This scene [youtube.com] describes the reason the security landscape is what it is, quite well. My advice to you my friend is: "Be the cherry".

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