<story><title>Microsoft sued over Windows 10 update campaign</title><url>http://www.seattletimes.com/business/microsoft/microsoft-sued-over-windows-10-update-campaign/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>totony</author><text>Or we should stop overlesgislating. Users are responsible for their own actions.</text></item><item><author>Esau</author><text>If the default settings are for user information to be shared, then the defaults are evil (even if the intent behind them is not). I say this because they know most people will accept the defaults.&lt;p&gt;Maybe there needs to be a law about default settings and privacy.</text></item><item><author>kctess5</author><text>What I find most appalling about Windows 10 is the draconian &amp;quot;default install&amp;quot; options. Seriously, how did having a key logger as the default option get through privacy review? Also desktop ad tracking?&lt;p&gt;I said no to three solid screens full of what I consider to be highly privacy infringing settings on install, all of which were on by default if you didn&amp;#x27;t do a &amp;quot;custom install.&amp;quot;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>TheSpiceIsLife</author><text>You&amp;#x27;ve heard of &lt;i&gt;dark patterns&lt;/i&gt; right? &lt;i&gt;Dark Patterns are User Interfaces that are designed to trick people.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;In my opinion that shares a remarkable similarity to the concept of &lt;i&gt;fraud&lt;/i&gt;: &lt;i&gt;In law, fraud is deliberate deception to secure unfair or unlawful gain, or to deprive a victim of a legal right.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;How can the user be responsible for their own actions when the results of their actions are deliberately obscured by the people who wrote the software?</text></comment>
<story><title>Microsoft sued over Windows 10 update campaign</title><url>http://www.seattletimes.com/business/microsoft/microsoft-sued-over-windows-10-update-campaign/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>totony</author><text>Or we should stop overlesgislating. Users are responsible for their own actions.</text></item><item><author>Esau</author><text>If the default settings are for user information to be shared, then the defaults are evil (even if the intent behind them is not). I say this because they know most people will accept the defaults.&lt;p&gt;Maybe there needs to be a law about default settings and privacy.</text></item><item><author>kctess5</author><text>What I find most appalling about Windows 10 is the draconian &amp;quot;default install&amp;quot; options. Seriously, how did having a key logger as the default option get through privacy review? Also desktop ad tracking?&lt;p&gt;I said no to three solid screens full of what I consider to be highly privacy infringing settings on install, all of which were on by default if you didn&amp;#x27;t do a &amp;quot;custom install.&amp;quot;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>eximius</author><text>That&amp;#x27;s a problem with these industries of oligarchies and megacorps. If we say, &amp;quot;Microsoft, we refuse to use your product until you fix this&amp;quot;, there isn&amp;#x27;t an alternative to go to to force them to change.&lt;p&gt;There are a number of cultural issues that we&amp;#x27;ll have to face, but the cognitive dissonance that occurs in corporations whereby employees make decisions that benefit the company but harm themselves is one of the most important.</text></comment>