Microsoft Is Putting Ads on the Mail App in Windows 10

Re:Microsoft Is Putting Ads on the Mail App in Windows 10 by ohithereyou on Friday November 16, 2018 @03:36PM (#18471754)

How are these machines HIPAA compliant when your OS vendor can push random software to them?

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Re:Microsoft Is Putting Ads on the Mail App in Windows 10 by Spivak on Friday November 16, 2018 @07:11PM (#18473001)

Vendors aren't considered threats under HIPPA which, tbf, is pretty rational because if you don't trust the entity that wrote the software or made your hardware you've got much bigger problems.

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Re:Microsoft Is Putting Ads on the Mail App in Windows 10 by acct1771 on Friday November 16, 2018 @08:44PM (#18473405)

So what you're saying is we've got much bigger problems.

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Re:Microsoft Is Putting Ads on the Mail App in Windows 10 by ohithereyou on Saturday November 17, 2018 @12:41PM (#18476480)

Microsoft's behavior here and Canonical's behavior shipping search tied into Amazon tracking show that this is not a pretty rational stance.

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Re:Microsoft Is Putting Ads on the Mail App in Windows 10 by namibj on Friday November 16, 2018 @10:00PM (#18473668)

I trust the system I bought to not be evil as far as anything remotely everyday goes. I don't teudt their softwsre/updates.

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Re:Microsoft Is Putting Ads on the Mail App in Windows 10 by acct1771 on Friday November 16, 2018 @08:44PM (#18473402)

HIPAA

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