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Comment by faizmokhtar | Hacker News Reader

I think Microsoft is cool now. Certainly much better than Google.

Actually they are probably the coolest if not cooler: https://bgr.com/2015/07/31/windows-10-upgrade-spying-how-to-... even Google doesn't get to track every file you open, which I agree is way less cool. ;)

You don't think google has telemetry on every file you open in google docs? Same problem - different ecosystem. In fact, you literally have to ask google for your file in order to view it in the first place.

Obviously yes, Google is scanning your Gmail emails and doing telemetry on every document you put into their services. That gets a decent amount of attention but it's no where near the amount of information Microsoft gets from you if you happen to be a Windows user. Google's search history on you would pale in comparison in terms of profiling, etc.

That's a pretty awful article from the age of "putting windows 10 and spying in the title generates easy clicks".

The quoted statement had nothing to do with Windows 10 and was specifically do with Microsoft's digital services like Hotmail & OneDrive, which the statement has now been updated to clarify:

"Finally, we will retain, access, transfer, disclose, and preserve personal data, including your content (such as the content of your emails in Outlook.com, or files in private folders on OneDrive), when we have a good faith belief that doing so is necessary to do any of the following:"

Microsoft doesn't care about your local files, but you agree with the generic "to comply with laws and protect our systems" statement if you decide to use their cloud services.

I think I posted that pretty ironically and with enough glib not to be taken too seriously. Oh well. To say their not profiling users using their OS is insane. Private repositories can't even be encrypted on GitHub. What another absolutely insane joke.

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