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If You Are A Gamer, Microsoft’s Windows 10 Is Spying On You by emmylaah74(m): 11:15pm On Oct 02, 2015
The Windows 10 update was rolled out just last month and already millions of people have updated. The roll-out has been a success so far but there are still major concerns over privacy. Namely with the default settings that send information to Microsoft, auto enable the bandwidth sharing to help send updates to other Windows 10 users, and auto turn on the Wi-Fi password sharing option on a person’s computer. Forcing that person to share their Wi-Fi with anyone who is in range on the Wi-Fi signal. This mixed with Microsoft’s forced auto updates for Windows 10.
The most recent concern over Windows 10 is that Windows 10 will restrict pirated games. A report surfaced at Alphr a week ago, taking note that Microsoft has upgraded its service agreement, you know the one that you consent to when you open certain Windows 10 applications. It’s an 1000 word page that no one ever pauses to read and you simply agree to, to just get through the install. This is an agreement that covers Microsoft’s applications like Skype or Xbox Live that keep running on top of Windows 10, not an End User License Agreement (EULA) that covers Windows 10 itself. The understanding now incorporates the following:

“We may automatically check your version of the software and download software updates or configuration changes, including those that prevent you from accessing the Services, playing counterfeit games, or using unauthorized hardware peripheral devices.”

There ought to be concerns over some of Microsoft’s EULA wording and Windows 10 changes, however. Ars Technica’s Peter Bright set aside the time to dissect the numerous protection controls in Windows 10 that are intended to handicap some of these questionable components that send information to Microsoft. Splendid found that the controls

“don’t have all the earmarks of being adequate to totally keep the working framework from running online and speaking with Microsoft’s servers.”http://www.naijainn.com/2015/10/if-you-are-gamer-microsofts-windows-10.html

In the event that you handicap Windows 10’s new Cortana colleague, Microsoft will in any case send a notice to bing.com with an arbitrary machine ID to download a record with some Cortana data. Somewhere else, Windows 10 appears to transmit data a server identified with OneDrive notwithstanding when the component is debilitated and logins are utilizing a nearby record that isn’t associated with a Microsoft Account. It’s not clear what is being sent, but rather it’s undeniable that Microsoft needs to address this as soon as possible and as discrete as possible.

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