<story><title>I noticed some disturbing privacy defaults in Windows 10</title><url>https://jonathan.porta.codes/2015/07/30/windows-10-seems-to-have-some-scary-privacy-defaults/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>natmaster</author><text>I find it shocking how people readily accept Google&amp;#x27;s far worse policies, and yet are so concerned about an easy opt out.&lt;p&gt;For instance, in Android, Google tracks with GPS accuracy your whereabouts constantly. This isn&amp;#x27;t just what IP your desktop is attached to. Furthermore, there is no prompt telling you this happens with a very easy way of undoing. In fact even if you knew about this it is very hard to find a way to disable.&lt;p&gt;Secondly, Chrome send every website you visit to their servers to be logged. Again, this is not explained in some easy opt-out screen and in fact the only way to get around this is to use SRWare Iron, where they removed that code.&lt;p&gt;But Microsoft makes it easy for you to choose the privacy options even telling you about them on install.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>autoexec</author><text>&amp;gt; I find it shocking how people readily accept Google&amp;#x27;s far worse policies, and yet are so concerned about an easy opt out.&lt;p&gt;For me it&amp;#x27;s because I control my interaction with Google. I don&amp;#x27;t use their search for things I don&amp;#x27;t want them recording, I don&amp;#x27;t use gmail for conversations I expect to be private. Once your talking about the private files I store on my hard drive and access with the OS, the keystrokes I enter on my keyboard for every application, then the reach is far greater. Having a company like Google say &amp;quot;You can use these services, but we&amp;#x27;re going to spy on you&amp;quot; is not the same as MS saying &amp;quot;we will be watching and have access to everything on your computer, oh and you can&amp;#x27;t disable all of this spying without an enterprise license.&amp;quot;</text></comment>
<story><title>I noticed some disturbing privacy defaults in Windows 10</title><url>https://jonathan.porta.codes/2015/07/30/windows-10-seems-to-have-some-scary-privacy-defaults/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>natmaster</author><text>I find it shocking how people readily accept Google&amp;#x27;s far worse policies, and yet are so concerned about an easy opt out.&lt;p&gt;For instance, in Android, Google tracks with GPS accuracy your whereabouts constantly. This isn&amp;#x27;t just what IP your desktop is attached to. Furthermore, there is no prompt telling you this happens with a very easy way of undoing. In fact even if you knew about this it is very hard to find a way to disable.&lt;p&gt;Secondly, Chrome send every website you visit to their servers to be logged. Again, this is not explained in some easy opt-out screen and in fact the only way to get around this is to use SRWare Iron, where they removed that code.&lt;p&gt;But Microsoft makes it easy for you to choose the privacy options even telling you about them on install.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Zarel</author><text>This is completely false. For one thing, SRWare Iron is a scam:&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.insanitybit.com&amp;#x2F;2012&amp;#x2F;06&amp;#x2F;23&amp;#x2F;srware-iron-browser-a-real-private-alternative-to-chrome-21&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.insanitybit.com&amp;#x2F;2012&amp;#x2F;06&amp;#x2F;23&amp;#x2F;srware-iron-browser-a-...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;For another thing, Chrome doesn&amp;#x27;t log every website you visit. The closest thing they do is suggest autocompletions for searches&amp;#x2F;URLs you type in the URL, which is a straightforwardly-explained checkbox in Chrome&amp;#x27;s privacy settings.</text></comment>