Updates Make Windows 7 and 8 Spy on You Like Windows 10

Re:Updates Make Windows 7 and 8 Spy on You Like Windows 10 by sschueller on Monday August 24, 2015 @12:01PM (#10110753)

Steam is owned by Valve and Valve is a US company. Using steam will not change anything since it is the US laws allowing/requiring companies to comply with the NSA.

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Re:Updates Make Windows 7 and 8 Spy on You Like Windows 10 by ionised on Monday August 24, 2015 @12:07PM (#10110790)

The difference being that I want to use Windows only for games without all this other cloud integration crap that comes with it.

Steam OS is a Linux-based OS designed primarily for gaming. Any and all cloud-integration will be specifically gaming-focused.

Can you not see the difference between that and a general purpose OS like Windows harvesting data everything you do on your system?

I won't be using Steam OS to do anything very sensitive like sending or receiving personal e-mails, editing word documents or spreadsheets, or browsing the internet for whatever reason.

Unless you consider firing up a shooter or a city-building sim sensitive.

The two OS's have very different purposes and use-cases.

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Re:Updates Make Windows 7 and 8 Spy on You Like Windows 10 by JadeNB on Monday August 24, 2015 @01:31PM (#10111532)

> Using steam will not change anything since it is the US laws allowing/requiring companies to comply with the NSA.

There's a big difference between 'allowing' and 'requiring'.

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Re:Updates Make Windows 7 and 8 Spy on You Like Windows 10 by pjc50 on Monday August 24, 2015 @12:11PM (#10110815)

Telemetry is clearly not a legal requirement. It's only data stored on steam servers (including chat logs) which you have to worry about.

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