Microsoft banned me from playing Minecraft until I provide personal info

Re:Microsoft banned me from playing Minecraft until I provid... by bravetraveler on Monday July 18, 2022 @04:26PM (#32143199)

I'm with you. Even if it's an over-exaggerated response to something truly honest, I still support the sentiment. It's the inevitable response to the frog [us] being boiled to where we have no trust

With that said, I see this as thinly veiled data collection under the guise of spam prevention. There are perfectly capable methods that respect privacy as you mentioned. They chose to have a mountain of data as a responsibility instead

I really wish the industry acted more like we do where we have to (eg: HIPAA) -- if you don't need it, don't collect it.

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Re:Microsoft banned me from playing Minecraft until I provid... by google234123 on Monday July 18, 2022 @11:14PM (#32147126)

Health care industry should collect everything they can though? More information means doctors can make better decisions.

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Re:Microsoft banned me from playing Minecraft until I provid... by bravetraveler on Tuesday July 19, 2022 @11:52AM (#32153435)

I'm sure they collect plenty that's diagnostically relevant -- I can't really speak to that. Just a tech guy that's been forced to learn admittedly very little about the area.

The idea though is to be cognizant of the data that you need, with the understanding that you're taking on responsibility for that data

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