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0 pointsstarik367y ago0 comments

So nothing really nefarious then.

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turrini7y ago· 6 in thread

Because it is a simple calculator. Now think about what they might be collecting from the rest of the system.

All the concerning privacy issues with Facebook or any other company should be seen rigorously by its users. Telemetry at OS Level is one of the worst offending practices IMO.

dtrailin7y ago

You don't have to imagine, you can view the data for yourself: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/privacy/diagnostic-...

badrequest7y ago

If we're expected to trust the party spying on us to reveal exactly the extent to which they spy on us via their proprietary, closed-source spying data viewer tool, then we deserve exactly whatever the fuck it is we end up getting.

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_Microft7y ago

"MAIL_FOLDER_LIST_EXPANDED", "REFRESH_INBOX_BUTTON_USED", ... :P

elcritch7y ago

‘’’In a brightly lit but still somehow nefarious meeting room two devs discuss their latest findings: Dev1: “These users searching for ‘transfer bank savings’ also have a 15% chance of pasting these long invalid numbers into the calculator. Look at all of them.” Dev2: “Odd those look like bank accounts numbers...” Dev3: “I think we may have an early retirement opportunity...” ‘’’

dfox7y ago

You raise valid issue, but that issue has nothing to do with the telemetry itself, but with the brokeness of US banking system. Essentially everywhere else the bank account number is simply an public address that you can use to send money there and nothing else.

anth_anm7y ago

So microsoft should just ignore all the lessons that we've learned over and over about being data driven?

amibang7y ago

Well it must include your IP address too, and they know the time and date is was received. And then it gets bundled with the rest of the data they collected.

I don't even want them knowing when I'm using my computer.

“What gets measured gets managed.”

tyingq7y ago

Errant pasted data sounds like a bad thing to log.

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