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The administrator of AE News (an online news portal for Czech and Slovak expatriates) writes a very revealing article regarding the Windows 10 collection of user data. Here is the original Czech article. Here is a Bing translation to English. Here is a English condensed version translated by a blogger. And finally a PDF of the original Czech article.
In the post the AE News administrator states:
With the advent of Windows 10, I decided to undergo several tests. The collected knowledge for someone may be alarming. The Windows operating system 10 is essentially the end terminal, more than the operating system, because many of the processes and functions of this system is directly or indirectly dependent on remote servers and databases to Microsoft.
All text typed on the keyboard is stored in temporary files, and sent (once per 30 mins) to:
oca.telemetry.microsoft.com.nsatc.net
pre.footprintpredict.com
reports.wes.df.telemetry.microsoft.com
AE News also references an arstechnica.co.uk article which states it might be impossible to stop this communication:
And finally, some traffic seems quite impenetrable. We configured our test virtual machine to use an HTTP and HTTPS proxy (both as a user-level proxy and a system-wide proxy) so that we could more easily monitor its traffic, but Windows 10 seems to make requests to a content delivery network that bypass the proxy."
arstechnica.co.uk also "asked Microsoft if there is any way to disable this additional communication or information about what its purpose is". Microsoft did not reply as to a way to disable this chatter but did respond to the 'additional communication' stating Microsoft is now 'delivering Windows 10 as a service'.
Although the original source for this story is skeptical, Smart nerds on soylentnews can easily fire up Wireshark and reveal the communication for themselves. It appears that MS has fully embraced the cloud where your OS is now a terminal. And regarding privacy? Well, according to arstechnica.co.uk: Windows 10 privacy policy is the new normal
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 22 2015, @08:17PM
Seems to me wise people have been saying for thousands of years, cast not your pearls before swine. And for just as long a time, the message is not being received.
(Score: 2) by mtrycz on Sunday August 23 2015, @12:23AM
Free/Open source software is for anyone and everyone, not just for elitist pricks ;)
In capitalist America, ads view YOU!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday August 23 2015, @01:25AM
You are wrong, of course. Free software has always been elitist, as stated in the GNU Manifesto.
GNU, which stands for Gnu's Not Unix, is the name for the complete Unix-compatible software system which I am writing so that I can give it away free to everyone who can use it.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by fido_dogstoyevsky on Sunday August 23 2015, @02:57AM
You are wrong, of course. Free software has always been elitist, as stated in the GNU Manifesto.
GNU, which stands for Gnu's Not Unix, is the name for the complete Unix-compatible software system which I am writing so that I can give it away free to everyone who can use it.
And anyone who can boot a computer can use it.
Making the definition of elite "the top 99+%".
It's NOT a conspiracy... it's a plot.
(Score: 2) by Nerdfest on Sunday August 23 2015, @04:08AM
Of course, Microsoft is in the process of making that *much* more difficult to do.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by fido_dogstoyevsky on Sunday August 23 2015, @06:29AM
Of course, Microsoft is in the process of making that *much* more difficult to do.
Which is why it needs to be put down and out of everybodies misery.
It may not be a total monopoly, but microsoft is still dominant in the market and it is still abusing its dominance.
It's NOT a conspiracy... it's a plot.