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Re:Microsoft President: Democracy Is At Stake. Regulate Big ... by fron on Saturday September 14, 2019 @09:31AM (#20970647)
Says the president of the largest spyware ("telemetry") distributor in the world
Re:Microsoft President: Democracy Is At Stake. Regulate Big ... by Hoasi on Saturday September 14, 2019 @09:39AM (#20970678)
"Please regulate the competition!"
Re:Microsoft President: Democracy Is At Stake. Regulate Big ... by mc32 on Saturday September 14, 2019 @09:50AM (#20970724)
True, but that’s because given their revenue model, this would impact them less than the corps which have embedded their tentacles deep into personal data of their users. Adtech is, by now, addicted to people freely giving up thief data and rights to their data.

Never the less, whatever happens when the elephants wrangle, it’s good for end users.

Re:Microsoft President: Democracy Is At Stake. Regulate Big ... by GoToRO on Saturday September 14, 2019 @09:50AM (#20970729)
If you don't play by the same rules, you loose. What he says is that the rules need to change.
Re:Microsoft President: Democracy Is At Stake. Regulate Big ... by ToFab123 on Saturday September 14, 2019 @09:48AM (#20970717)
largest. Hardly. Google and Facebook wins clean on this one.
Re:Microsoft President: Democracy Is At Stake. Regulate Big ... by whiteflame7000 on Saturday September 14, 2019 @10:08AM (#20970868)
Whats interesting is that the DoD only uses windows machines even at the NSA. I think I might know where that telemetry might be going.
Re:Microsoft President: Democracy Is At Stake. Regulate Big ... by colejohnson66 on Saturday September 14, 2019 @03:21PM (#20973104)
While I think the whole “telemetry” thing is overblown, there are enterprise editions of Windows that come with little to no telemetry. And I’m certain there’s custom builds of Windows for the government that have all traces of telemetry (to Microsoft) scrubbed.