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Windows 10 privacy
For the paranoid among you, here are some images showing all the ways that Windows 10 might get to your private information...
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Re: Windows 10 privacy
It is important to review all the settings under Start > Settings > Privacy...
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Re: Windows 10 privacy
I have upgraded to Windows 10HansV wrote:It is important to review all the settings under Start > Settings > Privacy...
I cannot find Start > Settings > Privacy and nothing in Control Panel.
Does Windows 10 come with a Backup program. i cannot find one.
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Re: Windows 10 privacy
See here for all the details...Max wrote:Does Windows 10 come with a Backup program. i cannot find one.
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Re: Windows 10 privacy
This is (part of) what I see when I click the Start button:
When I click Settings, Privacy is the 8th item (counting from left to right, top to bottom):
And Update & security, which contains Backup, is the 9th item:
Backup requires that another drive than the system drive is present (internal or external).
When I click Settings, Privacy is the 8th item (counting from left to right, top to bottom):
And Update & security, which contains Backup, is the 9th item:
Backup requires that another drive than the system drive is present (internal or external).
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Re: Windows 10 privacy
On the privacy note...another HowTo Geek article...Max wrote:HansV wrote:I cannot find Start > Settings > Privacy and nothing in Control Panel.
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Re: Windows 10 privacy
On my start button, i have the usual win7 display, not the tiles. how do i get the tiles to show?HansV wrote:This is (part of) what I see when I click the Start button:
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yes, but I already had the "old" menu/start-button with 8.1 (An addin) and the upgrade to Win 10 left me with it and hid the tiles (which I was happy with because I only had to swipe the right and get the charms, etc.)HansV wrote:Are you sure you have Windows 10?
I dont know how to switch between tiles and desktop now.
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Re: Windows 10 privacy
The add-in probably needs to be updated for Windows 10. Can you disable it temporarily?
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Found a way. On the taskbar there is a new one called Notifications. Clicking that brings up options, one of which is Settings.HansV wrote:Are you sure you have Windows 10?
I have gone through all the privacy and changed nearly all of them from ON to OFF.
Rudi, thanks for the backup links. i will tackle that next.
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Re: Windows 10 privacy
And for the really paranoid among you, this monster thread on another forum is essential reading:StuartR wrote:For the paranoid among you...
http://www.msfn.org/board/topic/174160- ... indows-10/
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Re: Windows 10 privacy
Great thread!!!
Thank you for starting it Stuart!!!!!! . . . and to all of you who have contributed.
I finally got off my duff and fixed this laptop Win 10's leaks - or at least I followed all the suggestions recommended in the links posted here.
Thank you for starting it Stuart!!!!!! . . . and to all of you who have contributed.
I finally got off my duff and fixed this laptop Win 10's leaks - or at least I followed all the suggestions recommended in the links posted here.
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Re: Windows 10 privacy
Stuart is actually stuck.
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Re: Windows 10 privacy
Stuart was the one who started this thread four weeks ago...
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Re: Windows 10 privacy
I misread Bobs reply...
I thought he was referring to Ken's "monster thread" because I read stating it instead of starting it!
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Re: Windows 10 privacy
Another view on this matter by Ed Bott: No, Microsoft is not spying on you with Windows 10.
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Re: Windows 10 privacy
It is not the fear of hard, intentional, malicious theft of data from my computer that I dislike immensely about the features built into the Win 10 platform, although is is disturbing enough that the technology exists and might be used maliciously. No, it is the probable gathering of data and sale of that data to others who will use it for target marketing or whatever other purposes they choose while Microsoft - through the license agreement - is held harmless if the sold data is used abusively. Privacy of person is such a precious thing that it should be preserved and protected from all assaults, IMO. I choose not to use Google, Twitter, facebook and many other things that I don't need because they invade my personal privacy if not my person.
For this paranoid, who is without his tinfoil hat at the moment, this is the greater threat and the worse use than can be made from abusing the technology. The one-click installation options choice is likely to be made by a very, very high percentage of users who will never even think of the consequences or potential consequences. That seems to me to be a conscious act on MS' part and the ones benefiting the most from it are MS and its data customers. It only wants someone or some thing with power to acquire and use the data maliciously and they will, no doubt, do so in the guise of some high-minded goal. In the US at least, we have some very recent and telling evidence of such abuse from our government.
For this paranoid, who is without his tinfoil hat at the moment, this is the greater threat and the worse use than can be made from abusing the technology. The one-click installation options choice is likely to be made by a very, very high percentage of users who will never even think of the consequences or potential consequences. That seems to me to be a conscious act on MS' part and the ones benefiting the most from it are MS and its data customers. It only wants someone or some thing with power to acquire and use the data maliciously and they will, no doubt, do so in the guise of some high-minded goal. In the US at least, we have some very recent and telling evidence of such abuse from our government.
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Re: Windows 10 privacy
Let's not think that any of this technology in Windows 10 is new. It has been around for a long time and has been used by "good" guys and "bad" guys for various purposes. If you use a browser you are being tracked by almost every website you visit. If you update any programs you are most likely being tracked. If you purchase anything online or bricks and mortar you are being tracked. If you use GPS on a phone you are being tracked. If you use a cell phone at all you are being tracked. In large cities these days there are innumerable cameras tracking you without your consent.
I suppose you can minimize the tracking but eliminating it is all but impossible. Plus, if you want to take advantage of something such as a digital assistant the data collection is required.
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I suppose you can minimize the tracking but eliminating it is all but impossible. Plus, if you want to take advantage of something such as a digital assistant the data collection is required.
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