Is my PRIVACY AT RISK while using windows 10 ???

No one in this discussion has questioned your right to accept or not, you posted a discussion subject (In fact you asked a question: Is my PRIVACY AT RISK while using windows 10 ??? ::) on an open forum, which is for the purpose of each poster to express their point of view.

We are only expressing our point of view.

Regards & Happy Computing

Uh, no, actually I did not ask the question.

I posted my point of view in answer to the original question, the aforementioned : Is my PRIVACY AT RISK while using windows 10 ??? ::

If you are testing this operating system on a machine on which you do not do the majority of your computing, as suggested by Microsoft, no. You will only be testing things out and trying out a few websites and so on. If you are using it as the OS on your main machine not only are you disregarding what Microsoft says, risking your own data etc., but there is a slight risk to your privacy. Of course, all the data is going to be processed by machines not people as there will be far to much for anything else so I suspect the risk will be tiny.

Q  Is my PRIVACY AT RISK while using windows 10 ??? ::

YES it is - But same as

A) If you use a Apple Phone - Each time your phone is backed up online on Icloud your Phone Directory your recent calls & your sms are backed up

B) In windows 8.1 also a disk image is online backed up in OneDrive.

In both cases if you lose your phone or laptop you do not have to sweat about lost information, you simply buy a new phone or Laptop use the same account to log on & all your information is back

Depending on your Settings your Documents may not be back, in a laptop if you are using local Drive C: instead of OneDrive

But is it not better to avoid in case of theft to compromise your Privacy rather than lose all your information

IN Windows 8 & Windows 8.1 Laptop if you forget your password unless you change your Password in Login Live or some kind of website, they cannot be unlocked

Apple also requires in all phones from 4 onwards PIN or in 5S onwards your biometric signature.

So Privacy or Security you decide

• It is not the Operating System you should be worried about. All OS-System entidies supply their customer data to the NSA. Of major concern should be the traffic via the lines of communications, Cross-Ocean-Cables or internet exchange points.
• **DE-CIX Frankfurt**.. is the world’s largest Internet exchange point with more than 3.2 terabits per second peak traffic (see https://www.de-cix.net/about/quick-facts )
• The NSA is grabbing (copying ALL the traffic from those sources. The problem is not the gathering and the storage of the data, it is the collation and analysis of the relevant data (i.e. targeting a certain person or organization).
• The only solution is: stay away from the internet, if you want to hide a certain fact. Write a conventional letter instead, that is much safer :-)

regards

Redsok

Could you maybe give an example of them using adware, other than their free Windows Modern Apps?

Why does Microsoft feel the need to use Adware ? How is that going to improve the systems performance? I can fully understand the requirements for reporting and Microsoft collecting data and usage for 10 but for Microsoft to collect extra $$ for advertising is above something I am not willing to participate in.

I could easily understand the advertising concept if Microsoft did not charge for it's operating system like Android, and used ads for financing....this is not the case.

[quote]For example, we use information we learn about your interests to help make the ads we show you more relevant,[/quote]

Windows 10 TP is nothing more than windows 8.2 If you install Adobe Flash Player & test if it works, it detects Windows 10 TP as windows 8.1.

So Microsoft has been collecting Information on you for a long time, why worry about it now.

Why they are not calling this Windows 8.2 is simple, the do not wish to give free updates to any users.

The Speed at which Microsoft is discarding its OS - In 6 Years -Vista, then Windows 7, then Windows 8, then Windows 8.1 & finally in 2015 - Windows 10, in few years they whould have reached Windows 16, & this world being bored with Updating whould stop buying any products called Windows.

So at that time the Information they collect today shall come in handy to send out e-mails requesting users to please try out new Windows 16

Microsoft is still supporting Vista with extended support, and 7 as well. The reason it still shows it as 8.1 is because this is an early preview.