Re:Microsoft’s enterprise products covertly gather personal ...
by gerrard00 on Friday November 16, 2018 @11:56AM
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I definitely think this should be opt-in but I also think that it's silly to focus on just this scenario. I'd bet dollars to doughnuts that Google Docs and every other web based business tool use similar telemetry data to guide their UX and product investments as well as to preemptively address bugs.
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Re:Microsoft’s enterprise products covertly gather personal ...
by kenjackson on Friday November 16, 2018 @12:03PM
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Don't ALL web/internet based products have to collect some base level telemetry to simply function?
Re:Microsoft’s enterprise products covertly gather personal ...
by josteink on Friday November 16, 2018 @12:46PM
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> Don't ALL web/internet based products have to collect some base level telemetry to simply function?
No. Not at all. There’s no technical reason which drives such a demand. A big, fat no.
But it can help making the company hosting the site money. By selling your data to others. And that’s another question entirely.
Re:Microsoft’s enterprise products covertly gather personal ...
by smacktoward on Friday November 16, 2018 @12:26PM
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What’s new is having to think of your operating system as a “web/internet based product.”