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It's also worth mentioning that Microsoft is, to the best of my knowledge, relatively scrupulous about keeping their telemetry data anonymous. Meaning that they
by bunderbunder 8y ago
It's also worth mentioning that Microsoft is, to the best of my knowledge, relatively scrupulous about keeping their telemetry data anonymous. Meaning that they're still being way less sketchy about this stuff than your average e-tailer, or mass market retailers like Wal-Mart and Target.
- r00fus 8y agoDo you have a cite for how well they anonymize? Is it as strong a position as Apple (e.g. differential privacy)?
- olyjohn 8y agoExcept they are taking things like file names, e-mail headers, recipients, and even in some cases they are taking documents. The recent recommendation from them was as follows: From - https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/11/16/microsoft_gdpr/ https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/11/16/microsoft_gdpr/ "...[Microsoft] also recommends simply not using the web-only version of Office 365, or SharePoint Oneline. And it recommends periodically deleting the Active Directory accounts of VIP users and creating new accounts for them so that the diagnostic data associated with those accounts is eventually deleted." Seriously, we should be deleting and recreating accounts in our own fucking domain to keep the data anonymous? Why is that on us? They have you AD account info, and diagnostic data directly tied to it. There's no anonymization going on here at all. They're gathering it recklessly. Also from that link: "Much of what Microsoft collects is diagnostics, the researchers found, and it has seemingly tried to make the system GDPR compliant by storing Office documents on servers based in the EU. But it also collected other data that contained private information and some of that data still ended up on US servers."