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Windows 10? Here are privacy issues you should consider

Posted by $ AJAshinoff 10 years, 7 months ago to Technology
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Be concerned. Be very concerned. If you haven't already accepted the "free" upgrade, I'd suggest avoiding it for as long as you can (not that they won't find another way to get the information they want)

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  • Posted by woodlema 10 years, 7 months ago
    Do not use Microsoft.

    Use Linux Mint, Fedora, SUSE, Debian, CentOS, and Libre Office.

    Or use MAC OS...Windows is not now, nor has ever been the ONLY game in town.
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  • Posted by coaldigger 10 years, 7 months ago
    A hacker can get anything that is on your computer because he has no regard for your right to privacy. A company asks to use your information as payment for the "free" service they are providing. You may or may not chose to read the contract but you are entering into a contract where you are exchanging things that each party values. Your contract with the government is that it exists to protect your rights and when they violate that contract they are worse than the hacker that did not commit the additional deception of entering into a contract it had no intention of honoring. I prefer Microsoft. I just switched to Windows 10 and it is pretty good. I had some difficulty on day one making it work for me as well as previous OS's that I had years of experience with but now 2 days later I am comfortable with it.
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  • Posted by $ AJAshinoff 10 years, 7 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Yup. There was a time that the default from Microsoft was that everything off unless you enabled it. Now they don't bother to wait for you to be absent minded or foolish they just hope you're blissfully too lazy to bother. They are seriously making a strong case for Linux.
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  • Posted by $ MikeMarotta 10 years, 7 months ago
    Windows 10 automatically shares your links with your Favorite people with all of your "favorite" people -- unless you turn that off. So, for instance, if you are a real estate agent with 500 "friends" you just enabled all of them to know about all of them … and anyone else on your favorites list, such as your family, your lawyer, your doctor…
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