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It's insidious how Google has redefined "privacy" from "what's yours is yours" to "what's yours is ours, as long as we don't share it." Microsoft is moving fas
by millstone 8y ago
It's insidious how Google has redefined "privacy" from "what's yours is yours" to "what's yours is ours, as long as we don't share it."
Microsoft is moving fast along the same path.
- wbillingsley 8y agoI'm not convinced they are -- the models are entirely different. Google receives the vast bulk of its revenue from advertising based on mining what they know about you. Microsoft receives the vast bulk of its funding from companies using its systems and paying them to run them well. MS do not tie an analytics product (on most sites around the world) into the world's largest personal-data-mining and advertising network.
- not_kurt_godel 8y ago[Replying to sibling comment] > MS do not tie an analytics product (on most sites around the world) into the world's largest personal-data-mining and advertising network. They're trying pretty damn hard with Windows 10, which by default collects pretty much every keystroke you make. That data in turn gets shared and sold to advertisers - see MS's own privacy page: https://privacy.microsoft.com/en-us/privacystatement https://privacy.microsoft.com/en-us/privacystatement