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Windows 10 under fire over privacy settings

on Aug 3, 2015 | 0 comments

By Tony Connelly

Windows 10 has come under attack over privacy after it emerged that default settings in the operating system were compromising users’ privacy.

Days after the successful launch of the software, which saw 14 million installs in the first 24 hours, hundreds of users on sites such as Hacker News and Reddit criticised the new operating system for compromising their privacy.

It has emerged that the default settings in Microsoft 10 sends users’ personal information to Microsoft, uses bandwidth to upload data to other computers running the operating system, shares Wi-Fi passwords with online friends and removes the ability to opt out of Read full story ›

Source: The Drum