Is Windows 10 still telling what you're doing even if you don't want it to?

Post by exodust » Fri, Dec 14, 2018, 4:09 AM UTC

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I'm about to set up a new PC for a relative with Win 10 Home, parts have just arrived. Any advice on set up procedures or things I can do to keep Microsoft from spying on them and collecting their data? Or is it just not possible any more? Surely I can install the OS without creating a MS account? My intention is to disable all the nags, bloat and advertising bullying, leaving only an essential OS that doesn't bully…

You can have an offline account which is not connected to a microsoft account in any way. They try to force you to connect a microsoft account. There are scripts that disable all telemetry - reddit.com/r/tronscript is a good resource. The issue is that we don't know when Microsoft turns it back on.

Post by zozbot123 » Fri, Dec 14, 2018, 6:38 AM UTC

exodust wrote: post #131

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You can have an offline account which is not connected to a microsoft account in any way. They try to force you to connect a microsoft account. There are scripts that disable all telemetry - reddit.com/r/tronscript is a good resource. The issue is that we don't know when Microsoft turns it back on.

Okay thanks. The PC I'm assembling is for an 80yo guy who doesn't trust the internet, and would be horrified to learn how much Microsoft wants to track his usage. I won't be telling him about that. He deletes emails and even text messages as soon as he's read them, for fear of them causing problems. The last thing he wants is Windows popping up some message, contextually trying to be smart and know what he's doing wi…

Post by setquk » Fri, Dec 14, 2018, 7:52 AM UTC

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So it's ok for small companies to leak personal data? Doctors' surgeries are small companies here in the UK. The issue here is that literally every company across the world doesn't give a crap past the end of their nose and has abysmal data protection policies in place because it affects the bottom line. They introduced local legislation to help this and a few large fish got fined and that was it. Ultimately it wasn'…

> So it's ok for small companies to leak personal data? The GDPR doesn't just require companies not to leak personal data, it's a huge complex regulatory framework designed to handle the megacorps it was passed to target and imposes unnecessarily high compliance costs, and those costs disproportionately affect smaller entities. In particular, it is possible to have perfectly sound data protection practices that would…

Post by speedplane » Fri, Dec 14, 2018, 8:00 AM UTC

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> So it's ok for small companies to leak personal data? The GDPR doesn't just require companies not to leak personal data, it's a huge complex regulatory framework designed to handle the megacorps it was passed to target and imposes unnecessarily high compliance costs, and those costs disproportionately affect smaller entities. In particular, it is possible to have perfectly sound data protection practices that would…

Do you have any specific cases of how much the GDPR has cost to some small companies? My experience (I work in the EU) has been that the GDPR has not particularly difficult or expensive - and in particular it was easier than ISO9001, which we also implemented at a small company -, but I don't have any hard numbers.

Post by alex__c » Fri, Dec 14, 2018, 9:24 AM UTC

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> reopens all the applications I had running, and sometimes even has them all in the same positions I left them in That's a really great feature. I'd love to see even better window management in 10.

Its super annoying with YouTube. Even a full Shutdown/Restart, I open the machine and boom, Chrome opens and the speakers are blasting whatever I had playing on YouTube the day before. Shutdowns should be respected. What if I had something inappropriate open before doing the shutdown ?