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Windows 10 can carry on slurping even when you're sure you yelled STOP!
A feature introduced in the April 2018 Update of Windows 10 may have set off a privacy landmine within the bowels of Redmond as users have discovered that their data was still flowing into the intestines of the Windows giant, even with the thing apparently turned off. In what is likely to be more cock-up than conspiracy, it appears that Microsoft is continuing to collect data on recent user activities even when the user has explicitly said NO, DAMMIT!
First noted in an increasingly shouty thread over on Reddit, the issue is related to Activity History, which is needed to make the much-vaunted and little-used Timeline feature work in Windows 10.
Introduced in what had previously been regarded as one of Microsoft's flakiest updates – prior to the glory of the October 2018 Update, of course – Timeline allows users to go back through apps as well as websites to get back to what they were doing at a given point. Use a Microsoft account, and a user can view this over multiple PCs and mobile devices (as long[sic] you are signed in with that same Microsoft account). The key setting is that "Send my activity history to Microsoft" check box. Uncheck it and you'd be forgiven for thinking your activity would not be sent Redmondwards. Right?
Except, er, the slurping appears to be carrying on unabated. The Redditors reported that if one takes a look at the Activity History in the Privacy Dashboard lurking within their account, apps and sites are still showing up.
(Score: 1, Offtopic) by realDonaldTrump on Thursday December 13 2018, @11:17PM (4 children)
You followed the instructions. And you got your privacy back. Just like they promised -- a promise kept. Great job, Satya. Great job, Steve. Great job, Bill. And Paul (RIP!!!). By the way, Paul sold me a Jet. A 757. It's bigger than Air Force One. Which is a step down from it in every way. Rolls-Royce engines. Seats 43. And I put in gold everything, very classy. More gold than you've seen in your entire life -- unless you've been to my penthouse apartment on Park Avenue in Manhattan. Did you know it was featured on the Discovery Channel as the World's most luxurious jetliner?
You know cyber is becoming so big today. It's becoming something that a number of years ago, short number of years ago, wasn't even a word. And now the cyber is so big. But the privacy aspect of Cyber is very, very tough. And maybe, it's hardly doable. But nobody, and I mean NOBODY -- not Russia, not China -- does it better than Microsoft. As everybody knows. People like us, we have VERY HIGH levels of intelligence so we're big believers in Microsoft.
But unfortunately, the Fake News Media still get HUGE audiences for their phoney stories. They say, "oh, Microsoft did something HORRIBLE!" And everybody knows, probably it's fake. But they have to look, don't they? You know it. And I know it. It's called Click Bate. And it brings tremendous ratings. Tremendous amounts of money coming in. Sad!!
(Score: 2, Interesting) by realDonaldTrump on Friday December 14 2018, @03:07AM
(cont) @AmandaTMiller [twitter.com] did -- very beautifully -- the guided tour of my Jet. Including, and especially, the beds. Which she knows better than anybody. Thank you, Amanda! youtu.be/UZq3iCn2y74 [youtu.be]
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Friday December 14 2018, @06:14PM (2 children)
Yeah, you and ghetto punks - very classy. You dump gold into an airplane, the ghetto punk dumps gold into his teeth.
(Score: 2, Interesting) by realDonaldTrump on Friday December 14 2018, @08:43PM (1 child)
Isn't she a beauty? I love showing her off. And my Jet too. 24 carat ALL THE WAY. And I put some very special hardwood in that one. Not just in the bedrooms. Everybody does it in the bedrooms. But I put that wood in everywhere!
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Saturday December 15 2018, @02:03AM
You're just a walking, talking penis, right?