Majority of people send full diagnostic data back to Microsoft
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ruthan
I wonder if MS has some official user data pricelist?, or its grey market, where government for our money buying our secrets ot use them agains us..
Denial
I'm not saying they do this but if they wanted to do this they'd run voice recog and log all the data as text, not audio files. It would still be a lot of space but no where near as much as all audio would + it would be easier to search.
Also, idk about Cortana but with Google I can go back and listen to every audio recording into google search I've ever done. So Google definitely stores all that. Granted it's not all audio coming into the mic, just my searches, but yeah. If the FBI wanted they could subpoena google for that information and get recordings of all my search history, including those audio searches, including the random times my google home thinks it hears "ok google" and turns on - which happens to me at least once a week.
fantaskarsef
https://big.exchange/ ?
Jokes aside, I guess it's not a grey market or area, it's completely legal. Like Extraordinary said above, that's how they make their money in the first place.
Look at upcoming apps like whatsapp for instance:
Back in the day when whatsapp was starting, the app was for free. Later it was free for those that joined before a certain date, and later they acted like they'd charge you for your whatsapp "license" at some point. Of course they never did, because it would have crippled their growth in terms of numbers of data / users in their database. When the database was big enough, fb bought whatsapp to gain access to that data, which they could resell or filter for what they needed themselves. That's how it works.
So I am fairly sure that yes, you could buy data of users from m$, the question only is what data they will give you (which not necessarily means that's all the data they have), of if m$ doesn't sell it to you, google might (chrome browsing anybody? using google search which is IP fixed for your "personal and improved search experience"?).
This is not tin foil hatting, it's a business.
Denial
They sell the data but all the personalized information is stripped. The ad companies can see like "30,000 people viewed x website" but they can't look and see "Denial viewed bighotitties.com 30,000 times".
Honestly they don't even want that information - to the point where even Google is no longer scanning Gmail mail anymore, because they said the extra level of information is useless. The trends are all they need to make ad decisions effective.
Stairmand
I clicked just to read the comments sections from the tin-foil hat brigade. I wasn't disappointed.
H83
Don´t know if that´s true. There´s a lot of value on a single person data. I believe right now, big companies and governments are creating individual profiles of every user in the web for financial and security reasons. Having detailed info about what an individual thinks, buys and goes is an extremely powerful tool.
Denial
I'm talking about ad companies. When google sells user data to ad companies the data is definitely sanitized for personal information. I have friends that work in the industry that do the removal.
As for Google itself, yeah, they keep everything and the government can subpoena google for that information. So they definitely have access. There isn't one giant database for it though - I don't think there will ever be a need for it. That was the entire idea behind Prism. They could just pull data from all the major companies when they need to get it.
ruthan
Ok so give me pricelist or contact person, were normal mortal can order it.. Im for example interested in women boobs size correlation with hardware news site..
fantaskarsef
I was just waiting for another unqualified post of somebody willing to give away their data and I wasn't disappointed either.
Can you please send me your personal details so I can start my own user database too? Please, thank you. 🙂
KissSh0t
Well, now we know.......
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fantaskarsef
https://www.forbes.com/sites/metabrown/2015/09/30/when-and-where-to-buy-consumer-data-and-12-companies-who-sell-it/#31e8d5633285
Have a look, pick the site that matches what you want to know, and contact them for the rates.
Fox2232
On tablet I did uninstall so many parts of OS, that even MS's voice based assistant is completely gone.
Brasky
the spybot Anti-Beacon from safer networking seems to work well on my machines. they have updated it recently as well. https://www.safer-networking.org/spybot-anti-beacon/
Brasky
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Originally Posted by Stairmand View Post
I clicked just to read the comments sections from the tin-foil hat brigade. I wasn't disappointed.
I was just waiting for another unqualified post of somebody willing to give away their data and I wasn't disappointed either.
Can you please send me your personal details so I can start my own user database too? Please, thank you.
Ditto, I'd like you to also send your browser history Stairman so that i can develop a harmless advertising and marketing profile based on all your internet history.
sverek
LOL, Right? Why bother with this stupid data?
Btw, can you send me your family member names, contact info and their address. I love tracking people connections... Oh and add your credit card if possible.
You wouldn't care anyway, right?
Denial
I just want to point out that they literally tell you they are gathering this information. It's only when you type into one of their online connected apps like Cortana/Onenote/Word 365 where the only way for them to provide the "intelligent insights" or w/e they call it happens - but they do collect all of it. But you're right that it's no different than google keyboard or any of the other intelligence services that need that data in order to do word correction off the device and whatnot.
Sylencer
Shut up 10 and im good.
H83
It´s bad regardless of who´s doing. But the double standards do exist i think it´s because of the business model of companies like Google and Facebook, that are free in exchange of our data, and because having an OS spying on us is more intrusive than an app or a search engine.
schmidtbag
Same here. I don't like MS and I find Windows very flawed, but sending data to MS is not one of the things I dislike about them.
Gaidax
I honestly don't give a damn anymore.
In between Google, Steam, Facebook and gazillion apps, services and sites gathering my info, having one another gather it simply does not matter.
Other than that, honestly, what I even have to hide? What kind of porn I like? Because that's about the biggest, baddest secret I have there.
I never even opted out of any Windows 10 privacy stuff, because 0 ****s given and I do think they are unfairly singled out, because when you see the likes of Google who bloody scan your emails and everything you type ever in Chrome to push ads on you (and who knows what other purpose), MS is pretty tame.
