Windows 10: Microsoft under attack over privacy

Windows 10: Microsoft under attack over privacy:

 Windows 10 is the object of the attacks on the default settings that users say compromise their privacy, a few days after the successful launch of the operating system has been over 14 million installations in the first 24 hours.
Hundreds of commentators on sites like Hacker News and Reddit have criticized the default settings that send personal information to Microsoft, use the bandwidth to upload data to other computers running the operating system, sharing the words WiFi password with friends online and to eliminate the possibility of removing security updates.
Many complaints concern the new custom invitations integrated in Windows 10. When the operating system is installed, Microsoft assigns the user a unique ID of advertising, which is attached to the e-mail address registered with the company. This email address is also associated with a number of other services, such as productivity programs and communication of the company as well as application downloads and file storage of the cloud.
With this information, Microsoft is able to customize advertisements to the user, both during and surf the web for the latest applications downloaded from the Windows Store, the use of the application. Microsoft itself in the lead on that front, even turning Solitaire building (the card game that was a staple of Windows installations since 1990 Windows 3.0) into a freemium game, with video ads must on the version.
In addition, Windows 10 also harvest user information to teach the integrated personal digital assistant Cortana, Microsoft's answer to Siri. To activate Cortana, the company said it "collects and uses various types of data such as the location of your device, your calendar data, applications used data from their e-mails and text messages who calls you, the contacts and how often you interact with them on their device. "
Users have the option to withdraw from most of the data collection, but critics say that is not enough. Alec Meer, Rock Paper Shotgun game room, said: "Microsoft simply is not enough that they are doing this clearly, how they might affect you and how to withdraw - despite chest-thumping, we are -chums - all here talking about the "real transparency begins with the terms and policies that people can easily understand clearly."
"There is a world in which 45 pages of policy documents and settings opt-out screens spread across 13 different settings and an external Web site constitutes real transparency."
Others have criticized the company to extend the clause reflected in operating conditions that allow it to share user data based on nothing more than a belief in "good faith" of the need to comply with the police, "protect our customers, "the company provide services, or" protect the rights or property of Microsoft. "
The words are reminiscent of those used by the company in March 2014, when he read the hotmail account of a suspect blogger of being involved in a leak of an early version of Windows 10. After facing criticism for doing, Microsoft has strengthened its privacy policy, and promised a full internal legal review before he would do it again in the future.
The European organization Digital Rights (EDRI) summarizes the company 45 pages of terms and conditions that said "Microsoft itself essentially gives very broad rights to gather everything you do, say and write and their devices in order to sell advertising more directed or sell your data to third parties. "
In many respects, however, Windows 10 is simply closer to what has become the new normal with mobile operating systems. Both Siri and Google now need access to personal user information to customize the answers, so that both Apple and Google give developers the ability to deliver personalized ads to users based on the information such as the application installed.
And some of the critical parameters can be a net positive for all concerned. Windows 10 users attacked by offering only two parameters when Windows Update: either install or install and restart immediately and request permission to restart. The option not to install the updates do not seem to be present in the basic version of the operating system. But this decision sounds the advice of security experts, who say that the number one thing for online security is to install each security update immediately.