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Comment Windows 10 / 2016 not trustworthy (Score 3, Interesting) 111

by Jimmyandben on Thursday December 28, 2017 @10:08PM (#55825811) Attached to: Windows 10 Visits To US Government Sites Surpass Windows 7 For the First Time

If it wasn't for all of the dirty tatics that Microsoft made happen, I might be more inclined to trust them. The forced Telemetry was the toughest fo swallow and can't justify it for our users or safe guarding our data. Windows 2016 seems to have forced telemetry built in as well which means we may have to choose another system such as BSD or Linux. These are real discussions happening at our company because of the distrust that Microsoft has enabled.

Journal Journal: Impressively horrified at Samsung Privacy and Software updates

Journal by Jimmyandben on Thursday December 28, 2017 @10:03PM

Eye opening to buy 2 Samsung TVs. Updated software on one but not the other. Found that the older software lets you do more including set your own IP Address as well as run apps without needing to be connected to the internet (Which I need). Felt nice to have some sort of control, but not on the newer software. Having an advertising ID built in doesn't quite seem right. The privacy policy is extremely disturbing. This leads to a question - Why do we not have a privacy bill of rights in the co

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