Re:WordPad Is Gettings Ads in Windows 10
by toohotatopic on Tuesday January 21, 2020 @01:23PM
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It's not only device activity. If you are a company and you have contracts that guarantee privacy for the data that you process, how can you uphold those contracts if you cannot disable telemetry?
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Re:WordPad Is Gettings Ads in Windows 10
by Silhouette on Tuesday January 21, 2020 @04:33PM
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You can't. And even if you could, the automatic updates could change things later so you couldn't.
Several governments and their regulators in the EU are currently at various stages of looking into this issue, because it may be literally impossible to be GDPR compliant if you're processing personal data on a system running a Windows 10 edition that requires this stuff. And that's just the literally-breaking-the-law part as it relates to personal data in general. You might also have contractual obligations like NDAs, or perhaps some more specific legal obligations to protect data if you work in healthcare, finance, national security, etc.