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This looks really good but there is one thing I find irritating: This software, an IDE, comes with a privacy statement [0]: Some excerpts: -- > We collect in
by cJ0th 10y ago
This looks really good but there is one thing I find irritating: This software, an IDE, comes with a privacy statement [0]:
Some excerpts:
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> We collect information about how you interact with our products and services. This includes information about how you use the products and services, such as the features you use, the web pages you visit, and the search terms you enter. It includes information about the device you use with the services, including IP address, device identifiers, regional and language settings, and information about the network, operating system, browser or other software you use to connect to the services. And it also includes information about the performance of the product or service and any errors or problems you experience with them. In order to create a richer picture of your product usage, we will correlate usage data across other Microsoft services, like Visual Studio Team Services.
> We may share or disclose personal data with Microsoft-controlled subsidiaries and affiliates. We also share data with vendors or agents working on our behalf. For example, companies we've hired to provide customer service support or assist in protecting and securing our systems and services may need access to personal data in order to provide those functions.
> Finally, we will access, disclose and preserve personal data, including your private content when we have a good faith belief that doing so is necessary to:
comply with applicable law or respond to valid legal process from competent authorities, including from law enforcement or other government agencies;
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From a cultural point of view you wouldn't necessarily expect that from a piece of software that says "Free" and "Open Source" on its landing page. [1]
[0] https://www.visualstudio.com/en-us/dn948229 https://www.visualstudio.com/en-us/dn948229
[1] https://code.visualstudio.com/ https://code.visualstudio.com/
- EricHammond3 10y agoWelcome in the 21th century. It's nothing new, isn't it? Also, Microsoft is quite late on the train. What do you think Google, Facebook, Twitter, Github ... make their money with their so called free services? I don't favor this kind of business model, it's just so common. Nobody ever seems to complain about Google's and Apple's policies but if Microsoft does similiar: Outrage!
- zxcvcxz 10y agoPeople definitely complain about google and Apple. I personally see google (and twitter and Microsoft) as branches of the NSA. Apple isn't quite as bad but it's not good either. But also MS deserves more outrage than the others because they have a monopoly on the desktop.
- wmccullough 10y agoI don't think Microsoft deserves more for being more successful in the desktop game. If anything, they would deserve more because they have a larger social responsibility because of their success. How do you take many of these companies recent publicity surrounding wanting to better protect users (see: Apple vs. FBI or Microsoft building their own data centers to protect against NSA compromised data centers). Do you feel this is for show?
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