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Who woulda thunk, forcibly upgrading users and possibly causing harm to businesses just might be a sure-fire way to get a class-action lawsuit on your hands. I

• scholia 10y ago
  > I wonder if anyone on the Windows 10 dev team and/or their managers have ever heard of HIPAA, and how telemetry could... cause issues. They've heard about it but they haven't posted anything interesting about it. Try searching for "windows 10" hipaa site:microsoft.com I'm not an expert but I'd guess that consumer Windows 10 out of the box doesn't meet HIPAA, simply because it sends searches to Bing. (You could, of course, type identical searches into Google, if you wanted.) I'd also guess that business versions of Windows 10 with GP control can be configured to meet HIPAA. I did the above search expecting to find a white paper with the details, but, at a quick look, I can't see one. Microsoft is targeting the health business via partners such as US Medical IT, and it has done a lot of work on HIPAA compliance for Azure. Similar work on Windows 10 may be overdue.... http://usmedit.azurewebsites.net/ http://usmedit.azurewebsites.net/