Wednesday 23 September 2015

Windows 10 is spying on users

Setting up a new operating system, Microsoft's default is such that it controls user activity resembles espionage. To change them, will have to dig into the options.
Windows 10 is spying on users
Windows 10 is spying on users


The new operating system Windows 10 came on July 29 sale over the Internet, and the shelves of computer stores. In the first days after the release of her set at 14 million units, and this figure continues to grow rapidly. Skeptics, on the eve of the premiere of which was advised not to rush to install Windows 10 for purely technical reasons, found another reason to take a new product with caution. The new operating system is "out of the box" implies a high degree of access to personal data of its user reports English site RT.

"I am very surprised to learn that the system collects this amount of personal data. All default settings are exposed in the collection of personal information. The system wants to store history and to collect current information about the whereabouts of the user, the data can be used not only Microsoft, but and "trusted partners". I am sure that most people will leave these settings as is, without any idea of how much personal information they give away to the side. With the same success I could move your computer to the headquarters of Microsoft, and they have just stood and watched everything over my shoulder "- indignant in his blog, a web developer Jonathan Port.

With the default settings Windows 10 will read and send content to Microsoft e-mail, contacts and calendar, and a new browser Edge, which replaces the Internet Explorer, select the ads will be based on all the collected user information. Advertising will even solitaire "Solitaire." New personal assistant Cortana as "free to play with your personal data." To change your privacy settings, you will have to find the right windows thirteen among dozens of others and go further to the external Web site. Even if you work hard on set-up, fully protect their data would not come out. Alec Myr expert drew attention to the fact that the Windows 10 license agreement has a clause granting Microsoft the right to store at any time to read the user's confidential information. Given the information Edward Snowden close cooperation with the secret services of the USA Corporation, users have every reason to worry that they would be "under the hood" is not only software developers and sellers of advertising, but also a "big brother" with a police badge.

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