On Saturday, April 8, 2017 at 1:01:43 PM UTC-4, wrote:
On Sat, 8 Apr 2017 09:31:12 -0700 (PDT), trader_4
wrote:

No, Microsoft is not spying on you with Windows 10
The Windows 10 privacy agreement doesn't mean Microsoft is secretly stealing the data from your hard disk. Where do people come up with these crazy ideas?

Buy tinfoil futures.

It does beg the question, why would they include the language in the
user agreement if the software was not there or if they had no intent
of using it?

This is one example of the MSFT language, it was cited by Diesel:

"We will access, disclose and preserve personal data, including your content (such as the content of your emails, other private communications or files in private folders), when we have a good faith belief that doing so is necessary to."

The problem is that the cite he used is totally dishonest. They cut off
the rest of the last sentence. It actually reads:


"when we have a good faith belief that doing so is necessary to protect
our customers or enforce the terms governing the use of the services."

Now, what exactly those circumstances would be, IDK. But clearly MSFT
would be violating the agreement if they started looking at files in
your private folders just for the hell of it, or to extract data
to sell, etc.



The guys in my wife's office got a wake up call when they were asked
why the guys were asking Alexa to suck their balls. It turns out she
gets a text of every question they ask and what the answer was.
The open question is how much else gets sent to someone somewhere.
They would not answer that in the Arkansas case. All they said is the
text is not stared on the device.

Which shows again that it's not unique to Win 10. The same thing happens
with Alexa or any smartphone where you use a voice assistant. AFAIK,
if you don't use Cortana on Win 10, then your voice is not being recorded,
converted to text, sent to MSFT, etc.