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Windows 10 violates kids' privacy
If your parents have Windows 10, and have set up 'family' accounts and stuff... beware.
Source: This terrifying new Windows 10 feature could ‘out’ kids to their parents · PinkNews
Quote:Computers running Windows 10 could be automatically telling parents that their teens are visiting LGBT support websites – and emailing them details of their sexual fantasies.
The new operating system, which was rolled out last month as a free upgrade for users of Windows 7 and 8, has raised concern over the new ‘activity reports‘ feature.
The feature is enabled by default for users who have set up registered ‘family’ accounts, sending weekly breakdowns of browsing history to the parents – even if the kids browse anonymously or try to clear it.
Once active, the feature emails the parents a weekly summary of all the child’s internet usage, including the details of websites visited.
Browsing anonymously and clearing internet history, the tools of many a closeted teen to date, did not seem to make a difference to the surveillance.
The report received by the ‘parent’ in our experiment gave more than enough information to out the fictional child – and though our fictional family is probably accepting, many very real ones may not be.
PinkNews did receive one small notification at the bottom-right of the screen while first browsing on the child’s account, warning that activity may be monitored – though the child was not informed when the parent viewed the details.
Microsoft say the feature includes “regular activity report emails summarising how much time they spent on the PC, the websites they visited, the games and apps they used, and the terms they’ve looked up in search engines”.
Author and digital rights campaigner Cory Doctorow has also flagged up concerns about the “creepy ass” system, sharing a reader’s message to young users warning: “If you have Windows 10 now, your parents might be getting the same kind of report I did. Don’t assume your own computer has your back.”
I wouldn't install that shit even if it was completely 100% free.
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Windows 10 violates kids' privacy
Wow. Okay, if I didn't have a reason to avoid upgrading before, I do now. Windows 8 is great.
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RE: Windows 10 violates kids' privacy
To hell with Google, Microsoft, Mac, and all of them. But still if you don't want your mom to see it don't put it in or through the Internet in any form. Privacy does not exist.
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Windows 10 violates kids' privacy
It also sends all your keystrokes to Microsoft. And Microsoft has a key for the disk encryption. And more. Windows 10 is spyware.
But some of that spyware is actually coming to Windows 7 and 8 through automatic updates now. Install Linux...
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RE: Windows 10 violates kids' privacy
Never habbening since windows is best platform for gamers. Sure linux might have something to make some games playable, but thats not enough.
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RE: Windows 10 violates kids' privacy
I'm glad I'm using Windows 8
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RE: Windows 10 violates kids' privacy
BUT MUH LINUX
Hello, traveler.
This is an ancient account I have not used in a long time. My views have changed much in the intervening months and years.
Nonetheless, I refuse to clean it up. Pretending that I've held my current views since the beginning of time is what we in the industry call a lie. Asking people to do so contributes to moralistic self-loathing. "See, those people have nothing damning! I do! I'm truly vile!"
Because you can never be a good person with a single blemish on the moral record, I thought that simply entertaining some thoughts made me irredeemable. Though I don't care for his writing style, William Faulkner presents a good counterexample. He went from being a typical Southern racist to supporting the civil rights movement. These days we'd yell at him for that, probably.
People are allowed to change their views.
Nevertheless, this period of my life has informed some of how I am today. In good ways and bad ways. To purge it would be to do a disservice to history. Perhaps it will not make anyone sympathetic, but it may help someone understand.
If, after reading all this, you still decide to use the post above as evidence that I am evil today, ask yourself if you have never disagreed with the moral code you now follow. In all likelihood you did, at some point. If some questions are verboten, and the answer is "how dare you ask that," don't expect your ideological opponents to ever change their minds.
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Windows 10 violates kids' privacy
Yeah, I'm sticking with my not-updated-in-years Windows 7 for now... until all my games work on Linux. Then I'll switch everything over. Hopefully all this Windows 10 crap will encourage more people to switch over, and my transition will be easier when I make it. 
I already actually like using Linux more than Windows... it's just a pain getting many things to work.
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RE: Windows 10 violates kids' privacy
(09-11-2015 12:42 AM)Cianna200 Wrote: I'm glad I'm using Windows 8
Windows 8 sucks IMO. But it's better than spyware (Windows 10).
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Yeah it kinda sucks but I don't know about getting a new Windows, isn't Spyware a virus?
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I think so.
Windows 7 is the best version of Windows IMO. I still have it on my PC (but I have had some experience with Windows 10 on my stepdad's PC).
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RE: Windows 10 violates kids' privacy
(09-11-2015 12:42 AM)Cianna200 Wrote: I'm glad I'm using Windows 8
hue Wrote:Windows 8 is great.
schoolsuxsux Wrote:Ciannuu Wrote:Yeah it kinda sucks but I don't know about getting a new Windows, isn't Spyware a virus?
I think so.
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MY NAME'S. NOT. HUE!!!!!
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(09-13-2015 05:48 AM)the other hue Wrote: EMPHESIS
Did most of the users on this forum forget how to spell basic words whilst I was away?
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RE: Windows 10 violates kids' privacy
Mabey.
Hello, traveler.
This is an ancient account I have not used in a long time. My views have changed much in the intervening months and years.
Nonetheless, I refuse to clean it up. Pretending that I've held my current views since the beginning of time is what we in the industry call a lie. Asking people to do so contributes to moralistic self-loathing. "See, those people have nothing damning! I do! I'm truly vile!"
Because you can never be a good person with a single blemish on the moral record, I thought that simply entertaining some thoughts made me irredeemable. Though I don't care for his writing style, William Faulkner presents a good counterexample. He went from being a typical Southern racist to supporting the civil rights movement. These days we'd yell at him for that, probably.
People are allowed to change their views.
Nevertheless, this period of my life has informed some of how I am today. In good ways and bad ways. To purge it would be to do a disservice to history. Perhaps it will not make anyone sympathetic, but it may help someone understand.
If, after reading all this, you still decide to use the post above as evidence that I am evil today, ask yourself if you have never disagreed with the moral code you now follow. In all likelihood you did, at some point. If some questions are verboten, and the answer is "how dare you ask that," don't expect your ideological opponents to ever change their minds.
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Probabely.
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Possubleh.
Also, Windows 7 FTW, as well as Linux Mint.
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I've never tried Linux. Is it about as good as Windows 7?
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There are tons of different distros that vary in user-friendliness, performance, what have you. Ubuntu is probably the "standard" one most people start with, but I can't really comment since it didn't want to cooperate with my GPU.
Hello, traveler.
This is an ancient account I have not used in a long time. My views have changed much in the intervening months and years.
Nonetheless, I refuse to clean it up. Pretending that I've held my current views since the beginning of time is what we in the industry call a lie. Asking people to do so contributes to moralistic self-loathing. "See, those people have nothing damning! I do! I'm truly vile!"
Because you can never be a good person with a single blemish on the moral record, I thought that simply entertaining some thoughts made me irredeemable. Though I don't care for his writing style, William Faulkner presents a good counterexample. He went from being a typical Southern racist to supporting the civil rights movement. These days we'd yell at him for that, probably.
People are allowed to change their views.
Nevertheless, this period of my life has informed some of how I am today. In good ways and bad ways. To purge it would be to do a disservice to history. Perhaps it will not make anyone sympathetic, but it may help someone understand.
If, after reading all this, you still decide to use the post above as evidence that I am evil today, ask yourself if you have never disagreed with the moral code you now follow. In all likelihood you did, at some point. If some questions are verboten, and the answer is "how dare you ask that," don't expect your ideological opponents to ever change their minds.
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I quite like the Linux Mint ones, KDE variant in particular.
Fuduntu was by far the most fun to use of all Linuxes I've tried, but they stopped working on that, sadly.
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stopped making sense after "mates,"
I still don't get all this techno-mumbo about distros and kernels.
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(09-10-2015 02:00 PM)TheCancer Wrote: To hell with Google, Microsoft, Mac, and all of them. But still if you don't want your mom to see it don't put it in or through the Internet in any form. Privacy does not exist.
Every company in the world collects data about us it is not such as Google Microsoft or anyone else they are constantly doing that what we are what we have done we have no privacy =0
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But at least they don't email it to your parents.
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(09-17-2015 09:02 AM)SoulRiser Wrote: But at least they don't email it to your parents.
It does Weekly sents email of a report to the parent account on what he was doing on the computer
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I was responding to this:
Quote:Every company in the world collects data about us it is not such as Google Microsoft or anyone else they
are constantly doing that what we are what we have done we have no privacy =0
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(09-18-2015 09:06 AM)ComradeDaryl Wrote: (09-15-2015 09:21 AM)brainiac3397 Wrote: stopped making sense after "mates,"
I still don't get all this techno-mumbo about distros and kernels.
How does my explanation of other OSes doesn't make sense? At least, I read all your arguments, mate.
Because I don't understand computer science very well so matter how much you write I still really won't understand it?
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