{"id":16452,"date":"2016-08-24T11:58:33","date_gmt":"2016-08-24T16:58:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=16452"},"modified":"2016-08-24T11:58:33","modified_gmt":"2016-08-24T16:58:33","slug":"with-windows-10-microsoft-blatantly-disregards-user-choice-and-privacy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=16452","title":{"rendered":"With Windows 10, Microsoft Blatantly Disregards User Choice and Privacy"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>The tactics Microsoft employed to get users of earlier versions of Windows to upgrade to Windows 10 went from annoying to downright malicious. Some highlights: Microsoft installed an app in users\u2019 system trays advertising the free upgrade to Windows 10. The app couldn\u2019t be easily hidden or removed, but some enterprising users <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pcworld.com\/article\/3014238\/windows\/get-windows-10-prompt-adopts-malware-like-tactics-to-trick-you-into-upgrading.html\">figured out a way<\/a>. Then, the company kept <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pcworld.com\/article\/3024278\/windows\/you-will-upgrade-to-windows-10-inside-microsofts-strong-arm-upgrade-tactics.html\">changing the app<\/a> and bundling it into various security patches, creating a cat-and-mouse game to uninstall it.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eff.org\/deeplinks\/2016\/08\/windows-10-microsoft-blatantly-disregards-user-choice-and-privacy-deep-dive\">With Windows 10, Microsoft Blatantly Disregards User Choice and Privacy: A Deep Dive | Electronic Frontier Foundation<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>And while users can disable some of these settings, it is not a guarantee that your computer will <a href=\"http:\/\/arstechnica.co.uk\/information-technology\/2015\/08\/even-when-told-not-to-windows-10-just-cant-stop-talking-to-microsoft\/\">stop talking<\/a> to Microsoft\u2019s servers. A significant issue is the telemetry data the company receives. While Microsoft insists that it <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.windows.com\/windowsexperience\/2015\/09\/28\/privacy-and-windows-10\/\">aggregates and anonymizes<\/a> this data, it hasn\u2019t explained just how it does so.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The tactics Microsoft employed to get users of earlier versions of Windows to upgrade to Windows 10 went from annoying to downright malicious. Some highlights: Microsoft installed an app in users\u2019 system trays advertising the free upgrade to Windows 10. &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=16452\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[976,188,1336,86],"class_list":["post-16452","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-operating-systems","tag-business-methods","tag-privacy","tag-spyware","tag-windows"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16452","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16452"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16452\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16453,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16452\/revisions\/16453"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}