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Are you ready to share your holiday photos , your browsing history and other documents on your computer to the employees of a US company when you install a new operating system?
This typens issues one is forced to think about if you carefully read the updated clauses regarding the integrity and become acquainted with the new features of Windows 10th
– It’s about slowly moving closer to an ever more comprehensive information gathering, says Tapani Tarvainen, vice chairman of the Electronic Frontier Finland (Effi), which defends citizens’ digital rights.
With Windows 10 creates Microsoft a private promotional for each user. With the help of it’s easy to target tailored advertising to users. Via the Windows settings, it is possible to limit the amount of information collected, and you can, for example, prohibit the individualized advertising. Tarvainen does not consider that this suffices to ensure privacy.
– The starting point is that everything is permissible for Microsoft. It’s easy to not understand the adjustments that would be required, and so have the information already leaked out who knows where, says Tarvainen.
Microsoft’s Windows business director Tom Toivonen says the company does not give advertisers information that would go to associate with a particular person.
– Advertiser see the user’s profile and some profiling information through it, but do not know who it is all about and can not get in contact directly.
Access to e-mail
Microsoft’s new privacy clauses states that the company can get acquainted with the users’ private information if there is good reason to believe that the is necessary, for example with regard to cooperation between authorities, or for maintaining services. For this data includes e-mail, other private communications and documents in private folders. The information can be according to the conditions also preserved and shared further.
Privacy activists interpret the text as Microsoft gives itself extensive rights to collect everything that the user does, write or even say.
Toivonen emphasizes that the company complies with local laws in all countries. The purpose of the conditions is to make it possible to become familiar with user data in case the law in any country would require it.
Toivonen also says that Windows certain extent have to collect information for the system to work well. This typens Information solely for “statistical purposes” in order to detect problems and correct them.
User can choose from three options for how much Microsoft may collect information about diagnostics. All information collection can not prevent.
Tarvainen fear that information may leak from Microsoft’s servers even to criminals via hacking
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