Microsoft’s commitment to GDPR, privacy and customers’ control of their own data
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#2Smart business from Microsoft, and a gauntlet of sorts for other global tech firms.
Re: Microsoft’s commitment to GDPR, privacy and customers’ control of their own data
#3Here's a question I haven't seen asked or answered:
Can I now (in 4 days time), ask Microsoft for all the data it's hoovered up from my Windows 10 installation?
I've only seen people talking about GDPR as it applies to websites, but as far as I'm aware, it applies to all software.
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#4Ok so there’s a privacy policy on this website and a standard “we use cookies” header but where is the consent management platform that’s supposed to let me review all the purposes and vendors used on the site so I can choose which ones I want to give consent to and which ones I don’t.
The https://github.com/appnexus/cmp appnexus cmp is the only cmp I’ve found that’s open source and provides a clear reference to what GDPR means as far as integrating the actual GDPR spec for an euconsent signal, a UI for managing consent, and deferring cookies/data-collection until after consent. Gdpr goes into effect in 4 days and I still haven’t seen any CMPs integrated in the wild. Has anybody?
Re: Microsoft’s commitment to GDPR, privacy and customers’ control of their own data
#5Smart business from Microsoft, and a gauntlet of sorts for other global tech firms.
Agreed. There's no reason why Microsoft - a software and hardware maker - couldn't be more like (or even supercede) Apple in this regard - i.e. treat the user as the customer not the product.
Further to that (without wanting to be cynical), it's probably also easier for MS to avoid the potentially complex jurisdictional issues that GDPR raises. One privacy code-base to rule them all.
Re: Microsoft’s commitment to GDPR, privacy and customers’ control of their own data
#6Here's a question I haven't seen asked or answered: Can I now (in 4 days time), ask Microsoft for all the data it's hoovered up from my Windows 10 installation? I've only seen people talking about GDPR as it applies to websites, but as far as I'm aware, it applies to all software.
Can I now (in 4 days time), ask Microsoft for all the data it's hoovered up from my Windows 10 installation?
Did you go to the dasboard linked in the article?
https://account.microsoft.com/privacy
It does show non-website data, such as voice queries, location data, media played, product & service performance, app & service activity, Cortana notebook (commute preferences, etc.). It seems that you can also clear this data in the dashboard.
Re: Microsoft’s commitment to GDPR, privacy and customers’ control of their own data
#7Here's a question I haven't seen asked or answered: Can I now (in 4 days time), ask Microsoft for all the data it's hoovered up from my Windows 10 installation? I've only seen people talking about GDPR as it applies to websites, but as far as I'm aware, it applies to all software.
Can I now (in 4 days time), ask Microsoft for all the data it's hoovered up from my Windows 10 installation? Did you go to the dasboard linked in the article? https://account.microsoft.com/privacy It does show non-website data, such as voice queries, location data, media played, product & service performance, app & service activity, Cortana notebook (commute preferences, etc.). It seems that you can also clear this d…
But I don't have a Microsoft account (only ever used local accounts in Windows 10). How can I ask for all my data which is associated with my installation/license?
Re: Microsoft’s commitment to GDPR, privacy and customers’ control of their own data
#8Earlier quoted context omitted.
Can I now (in 4 days time), ask Microsoft for all the data it's hoovered up from my Windows 10 installation? Did you go to the dasboard linked in the article? https://account.microsoft.com/privacy It does show non-website data, such as voice queries, location data, media played, product & service performance, app & service activity, Cortana notebook (commute preferences, etc.). It seems that you can also clear this d…
But I don't have a Microsoft account (only ever used local accounts in Windows 10). How can I ask for all my data which is associated with my installation/license?
This is a very good question. I suspect that at some point someone will fire up their lawyers and find an answer.
Not only that but you can’t opt out from data collection at the moment.
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#9Privacy: ability to opt out of all data collection.
Microsoft privacy: inability to opt out of all data collection unless you pay for enterprise edition.
This makes a mockery of any policy.
Re: Microsoft’s commitment to GDPR, privacy and customers’ control of their own data
#10Smart business from Microsoft, and a gauntlet of sorts for other global tech firms.
Agreed. There's no reason why Microsoft - a software and hardware maker - couldn't be more like (or even supercede) Apple in this regard - i.e. treat the user as the customer not the product. Further to that (without wanting to be cynical), it's probably also easier for MS to avoid the potentially complex jurisdictional issues that GDPR raises. One privacy code-base to rule them all.
> Agreed. There's no reason why Microsoft - a software and hardware maker - couldn't be more like (or even supercede) Apple in this regard - i.e. treat the user as the customer not the product.
Besides Apple's sky-high margins and complete control over the iPhone ecosystem, with a vice-like grip on app developers, no reason whatsoever.
If Microsoft made $400 per Windows PC that was sold, and 30 cents on every dollar of windows software ever sold (And had a competitor called Froogle with a steady 70% market share, whose business was based on user monetization), they'd probably be less interested in monetizing their users. I'm not entirely sure that's a world you'd want to live in, though.