Wednesday, September 30, 2015

Windows 10 privacy news update

I had already mentioned that most of the options for opt-out can be disabled for higher privacy but the problem is that some of the options cannot be disabled unless you're in Enterprise edition which gives you the full control. It seems that Microsoft was already under fire for this by various lawsuits but they already mentioned that consumers are able to disable those options like it was a cakewalk ever since Windows 10 came out. The question at a deeper level is that some of the privacy violations stuffs were still intact even with those options disabled and it's like Microsoft could tell in court that they can be disabled in higher edition of Windows 10 like Pro or Enterprise.
What else can I say here after another news like this popped up in various tech news and blogs including Neowin which has been the main reference for blog posts here? Here's what Microsoft told about:
  1. Data will be collected and sent to Microsoft for improvement purposes of Windows 10 and especially that the Insider Preview has been on-going which obviously makes sense ever since I beta-tested it although the Fast Ring Mode is going to make you freak out over instability of the OS behavior like I already did unexpectedly before going back to Slow Mode.
  2. Like I already know from few to several times, you have full control on what will be collected and what will not be collected. It's easy to disable those options and especially when you start up Windows 10 for the first time that you should go for option customization.
  3. The data collection is still there but Microsoft has a strict policy that it will not be used for advertising purposes.
So it may look like Outlook still has that strong security intact but for Onedrive, there was a false fear and doubt of that? In fact, other personal assistants are doing the same illegal thing like Siri and Google Now when you try to ask them for something. Why don't you try to tell your friend or something for information locally?
Then, what about Windows Update and Wi-Fi Sense? That Wi-Fi Sense may sound like one of the stupidest features I have ever seen in terms of security. It allows your friends or guests to bypass the Wi-Fi hotspot password through Windows 10 devices or something and the worse thing is that, not all devices are running that OS and I find that Wi-Fi Sense is starting to become pointless for sure.
Lastly, Xbox One users that run this OS one day can finally calm down again over this news update regarding the privacy policy and it may seem that Microsoft will make a sense-ful privacy policy that people can understand. Speaking of Windows gaming nowadays, I don't know if the problem about the controversial anti-piracy policy in which people are not able to play some games affected by it is solved or not but the worse thing is that it is also spread to Windows Vista, 7 and 8.1 and somehow, Microsoft might have dropped support for that part of gaming.