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Putting on my trusting hat, I would think that MS is only transmitting enough data to keep the machine running and virus free without any intervention from the
by jakejake 11y ago
Putting on my trusting hat, I would think that MS is only transmitting enough data to keep the machine running and virus free without any intervention from the non-technical people. So it would be a safe machine for a small company without any IT staff. A lot of those companies just take the computer out of the box and plug it in and don't do anything further anyway.
I don't see why they don't just add the option to disable that with appropriate labeling, though, if nothing else to satisfy the more vocal, privacy-concerned folks.
- aikah 11y ago> I don't see why they don't just add the option to disable that with appropriate labeling, though, if nothing else to satisfy the more vocal, privacy-concerned folks. Your last point basically contradicts the first one, IMHO, because you have an OS that itself becomes a giant spyware. You don't know what MS is doing with all that data. The could very well resell them to 3rd parties, give it to states, ... And the "you can't turn that off" is obviously by design. You can't turn off a spyware.
- criddell 11y ago> trusting hat If you are wrong and Microsoft suffers a breach, your defense for HIPAA violations has to be better than "but I trusted Microsoft!" > I would think that MS is only transmitting enough data to keep the machine running and virus free I don't think that's true. It uploads what you type, your calendar, contacts, etc... so that things like Cortana work better. What makes me nervous is that even if you turn off all the Cortana things that you can, Cortana is still always running. Plus, how often to business users use Cortana?