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Microsoft exec: Targeting of Americans’ records ‘routine’

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Re: Microsoft exec: Targeting of Americans’ records ‘routine’

#11
Let me see... Microsoft wants me to have a Microsoft account to use a computer that I bought. They nag me every time I log in because I gave them a bogus email address.

And then you read something like this. All those abstract privacy concerns just got a bit more concrete...

Re: Microsoft exec: Targeting of Americans’ records ‘routine’

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post #10

I wonder why ? Could it be because of all the spyware M/S has on Windows 10 ? Nice for one stop shopping

I wonder why the downvotes? This is absolutely correct. I’d be interested to know how many similar requests Apple and Google get.

Re: Microsoft exec: Targeting of Americans’ records ‘routine’

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post #12
post #10

I wonder why ? Could it be because of all the spyware M/S has on Windows 10 ? Nice for one stop shopping

I wonder why the downvotes? This is absolutely correct. I’d be interested to know how many similar requests Apple and Google get.

All of them release numbers on this:

https://www.apple.com/legal/transparency/

https://transparencyreport.google.com/user-data/overview?hl=...

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/corporate-responsibility/law...

https://transparency.fb.com/data/government-data-requests

Re: Microsoft exec: Targeting of Americans’ records ‘routine’

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post #8

Once the security apparatuses and their methods are entrenched it's hard for them to go back. Congress was spied on, a US presidential candidate that we know of was spied on... So imagine plain old American citizens... what can we expect? If congress isn't willing to take back what they allowed, they aren't going to stop all by themselves. If congress tried, they'd get a lot of pushback. Just like the Armed forces wo…

I think the assertion that homeless shelters never helped with homelessness merits a citation.

Re: Microsoft exec: Targeting of Americans’ records ‘routine’

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post #8

Once the security apparatuses and their methods are entrenched it's hard for them to go back. Congress was spied on, a US presidential candidate that we know of was spied on... So imagine plain old American citizens... what can we expect? If congress isn't willing to take back what they allowed, they aren't going to stop all by themselves. If congress tried, they'd get a lot of pushback. Just like the Armed forces wo…

US military spending dropped by about half when you look at GDP between 1982 and 1999, so your statements about the Cold War ending not affecting spending is just straight up incorrect. https://www.macrotrends.net/countries/USA/united-states/mili...

Re: Microsoft exec: Targeting of Americans’ records ‘routine’

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post #17
post #8

Once the security apparatuses and their methods are entrenched it's hard for them to go back. Congress was spied on, a US presidential candidate that we know of was spied on... So imagine plain old American citizens... what can we expect? If congress isn't willing to take back what they allowed, they aren't going to stop all by themselves. If congress tried, they'd get a lot of pushback. Just like the Armed forces wo…

US military spending dropped by about half when you look at GDP between 1982 and 1999, so your statements about the Cold War ending not affecting spending is just straight up incorrect. https://www.macrotrends.net/countries/USA/united-states/mili...

NATO are supposed to spend ~2% of GDP on their militaries. We're at least 2x that. That doesn't align with peacetime spending. We should be about half the spending we do now.

Re: Microsoft exec: Targeting of Americans’ records ‘routine’

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post #17
post #8

Once the security apparatuses and their methods are entrenched it's hard for them to go back. Congress was spied on, a US presidential candidate that we know of was spied on... So imagine plain old American citizens... what can we expect? If congress isn't willing to take back what they allowed, they aren't going to stop all by themselves. If congress tried, they'd get a lot of pushback. Just like the Armed forces wo…

US military spending dropped by about half when you look at GDP between 1982 and 1999, so your statements about the Cold War ending not affecting spending is just straight up incorrect. https://www.macrotrends.net/countries/USA/united-states/mili...

Why would I care about spending as percent of GDP? The absolute spending still went up. This is like saying your rent didn’t go up because now you are making more money so you can afford it more easily. This might be true, but it still went up. Moreover, after end of Cold War, it should have went down a lot not just in percentage terms, but also in absolute ones.

Re: Microsoft exec: Targeting of Americans’ records ‘routine’

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Let me see... Microsoft wants me to have a Microsoft account to use a computer that I bought. They nag me every time I log in because I gave them a bogus email address. And then you read something like this. All those abstract privacy concerns just got a bit more concrete...

And yet when they limit their new version of Windows specifically to devices that cant have rootkits installed, everyone freaks out.

...maybe they know that people are installing root kits... because they see first hand what the "good" guys are doing routinely.

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