Microsoft tries to soothe regulators and critics with new privacy controls | ZDNet (Jan 10, 2017)

Microsoft has been rapped over the knuckles by regulators and attacked by privacy advocates over its data collection in Windows 10. Over-collection of data combined with lack of notification for users have to be the most common twosome in privacy abuses among tech companies. Tech companies often collect far too much data by default, and then fail to inform users what’s being collected or why. This change is a positive one, but I’d hope that Microsoft (and others) will learn from the backlash here and do better from the outset in future releases of Windows and other products.

via Microsoft tries to soothe regulators and critics with new privacy controls | ZDNet

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