• Mrkawfee@lemmy.world
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    12 hours ago

    Fuck them. I cancelled Game Pass and installed Linux. Microsoft have blood on their hands.

  • cappielung@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    It added that Microsoft “is not in the business of facilitating the mass surveillance of civilians.”

    Isn’t that the whole point of Windows 11? Mass surveillance of your userbase? 🤔

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      1 day ago

      They are ‘customers’ not ‘civilians’. Totally different thing, pinky swear.

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      16 hours ago

      Isn’t that the whole point of Windows 11? Mass surveillance of your userbase? 🤔

      No.

      Anonymous telemetry that tells you what percent of users clicked a button is not surveillance.

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        15 hours ago

        Yes, those people are not serious at all, don’t they know that Microsoft is anonymizing all the data. For any data point, they can’t tell who or even where it was. Even the screenshots and audio recordings only have anonymous tracking IDs, they don’t store date, or your exact name or any other metadata. They know how important privacy is to their users and that it would be crazy to use the automatic update system for anything other than installing security patches.

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          15 hours ago

          Even the screenshots and audio recordings only have anonymous tracking IDs

          Nothing like that exists, mate.

          The Recall thing is local-only, nothing is being tracked or sent to MS. How do we know that? Because there’s about a billion security engineers poring over every single bit of data sent out by Windows since the introduction of Recall.

          They know how important privacy is to their users and that it would be crazy to use the automatic update system for anything other than installing security patches

          Hmm?

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            13 hours ago

            Yes you are right and of course market forces would discipline the participants either way if it weren’t true, there’s really nothing to be concerned about !

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                13 hours ago

                Little bit of column A
                Little bit of column B
                Sorry guy but our information space is poisonned and you’re going to have to make some of the though calls for yourself

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    1 day ago

    He added: “We do not provide technology to facilitate mass surveillance of civilians."

    Genocide is fine, mass surveillance is a step too far.

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      16 hours ago

      Correct me if I’m wrong, but I don’t think Microsoft provides software or hardware that facilitates shooting anything.

    • cecilkorik@lemmy.ca
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      They told us journalism is dead, but they have really just driven it underground and made us uncomfortable to listen to it because it sounds like crazy talk compared to the rotten corporate media. Until the crazy talk keeps happening and evidence keeps piling up until it finally turns out to be true. Support your local crazy person today. They may simply be a rogue journalist in disguise.