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Re:Microsoft’s new small print – how your personal data is abused
on Wednesday July 29, 2015 @05:03PM (#9971553)
I was referring to user data, not program data/log (despite it can as well containing some user data in some way).
Syslogd can be compared to windows event logs.
Re:Microsoft’s new small print – how your personal data is abused
on Wednesday July 29, 2015 @10:43AM (#9968952)
Zeitgeist stores your information on it's datahub, where 3rd party applications can retrieve it from. Nothing prevents such applications from sending this information elsewhere, once accessed.
As this comes out-of-the-box by default, and is in fact a pain to switch off, I compare it to this new windows behavior.
Re:Microsoft’s new small print – how your personal data is abused
on Wednesday July 29, 2015 @07:52AM (#9967952)
Agree! Ubuntu and similar, along with zeitgeist pre-installed, do exactly the same.
Re:Microsoft’s new small print – how your personal data is abused
on Wednesday July 29, 2015 @07:37AM (#9967884)
Not completely true. Don't forget you need an account, for instance, to buy, install and use MS Office 360. I bet if it wasn't for the Office, many people would move away from Windows easily.
And don't forget windows comes with Defender installed, which collects user metrics out-of-the-box. IE/Sparta also collects your usage data. Even windows "search" does.