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You can really tell that Microsoft has adopted advertising as a major line of business. The privacy violations they are racking up are very reminiscent of prio
by GeekyBear 1y ago
You can really tell that Microsoft has adopted advertising as a major line of business.
The privacy violations they are racking up are very reminiscent of prior behavior we've seen from Facebook and Google.
- dreamcompiler 1y agoAnd not just advertising. If ICE asks Microsoft to identify accounts of people who have uploaded a photo of "Person X", do you think they're going to decline? They'd probably do it happily even without a warrant. I'd bet Microsoft is doing this more because of threats from USG than because of advertising revenue.
- zzgo 1y ago> They'd probably do it happily even without a warrant I'm old enough to remember when companies were tripping over themselves after 9/11 trying to give the government anything they could to help them keep an eye on Americans. They eventually learned to monetize this, and now we have the surveillance economy.
- einpoklum 1y agoICE don't have to ask for anything, the USG gets a copy of all data Microsoft collects from you, anyway. Remember: https://www.pcmag.com/news/the-10-most-disturbing-snowden-revelations https://www.pcmag.com/news/the-10-most-disturbing-snowden-re...
- cube00 1y ago> They'd probably do it happily even without a warrant. ...and build them a nice portal to submit their requests and get the results back in real time.
- nxpnsv 1y agoI don't understand how america works, but surely Microsoft isn't paid for data requested by whatever agency?