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The Windows 10 Security Settings You Need to Know
So you finally installed Windows 10 and joined the ranks of the other 67 million users. You open your browser to search for a place to grab lunch, and Bing already knows your location. You notice that all the banner ads are geared toward your secret knitting hobby. And when you open Cortana to ask whats going on, she knows your name and the embarrassing nickname your mother calls you.
This may seems like a stretch, but youd be surprised by the amount of personal information Windows 10 collects from its usersinformation including phone numbers, GPS location, credit card numbers, and even video and audio messages. Of course, Microsofts privacy statement outlines all the data that is collected, and you agreed to this when you downloaded Windows 10 and checked the terms of service.
In this Age of the Unread Terms of Service Agreement, its important to, well, read the ToS. Its too easy for our technologies to gather personal information without our realizing it. Microsoft is far from the only perpetrator, but since it just delivered us an exciting new operating system, its time to dig into those settings.
http://www.wired.com/2015/08/windows-10-security-settings-need-know/
This may seems like a stretch, but youd be surprised by the amount of personal information Windows 10 collects from its usersinformation including phone numbers, GPS location, credit card numbers, and even video and audio messages. Of course, Microsofts privacy statement outlines all the data that is collected, and you agreed to this when you downloaded Windows 10 and checked the terms of service.
In this Age of the Unread Terms of Service Agreement, its important to, well, read the ToS. Its too easy for our technologies to gather personal information without our realizing it. Microsoft is far from the only perpetrator, but since it just delivered us an exciting new operating system, its time to dig into those settings.
http://www.wired.com/2015/08/windows-10-security-settings-need-know/
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The Windows 10 Security Settings You Need to Know (Original Post)
SecularMotion
Aug 2015
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hobbit709
(41,694 posts)1. All the more reason to tell M$ where to put it.
Let them figure out who I am from the name I entered when I first loaded 7.
Maximilien Robespierre.
Even FB has mostly erroneous info in my profile. The people that know me know what's real and everyone else I could care less.
I've been known to enter fucku@upyers.com if they insist on an email address.
-none
(1,884 posts)2. And some people wonder why Windows 10 is "Free".
I'm sticking to Windows 7, with Linux as a back up.
There are some windows programs I have not figured out how to run reliably under WINE.
Microsoft has lost sight of its customer base. And it gets worse with each release.
Sunlei
(22,651 posts)3. I'm still going to check no at the TOS and then it will not install.
I have used Microsoft windows from the beginning of time. For the first time I'm exploring any other options for different software on my next new computer.