What does Microsoft do with my contacts list?

We are our own worse nightmare and also we and everybody we have contact with are nothing but a fat  revenue source, plain and simple.

You might very well be correct in that assessment, but I think there is hope and that hope springs from pushing until we get answers.

And I forgot to acknowledge the Microsoft volunteer that wrote in a post that as this is a peer-to-peer Q-&-A site I shouldn't expect any Microsoft employee to respond here.

My answer is that I have to first try here.  I have to show the effort before I take this to snail mail and/or other websites where this can be discussed in more detail.

I sincerely believe we have here an issue of corporate responsibility.  I think any company that hires contractors has the responsibility to ensure that those contractors follow the same rules and regulations the company expects its own employees to adhere to.

So I start at the very bottom of the ladder and work my way up until somebody at Microsoft starts to pay attention.  I suspect that Microsoft volunteer's post in this discussion indicates that I am right now at the very bottom of the ladder.

And to give you some idea just how far I may want to take this issue up the ladder, I think while this particular administration sits in the White House, the White House is a viable option to climb up that ladder.

Of course, the snail mail to the offices of Microsoft will precede that possible asking of the White House for some assistance, just like this thread is preceding the sending of the snail mail to the offices of Microsoft.

And for those of you from the Microsoft Research Panel, where I suppose that information should end up, the image below will show you that you have found where I was referring to in the page a few before the one below.  I see no need to add that to this post, because if you have arrived here you already saw the link to this thread. 

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And to take the idea I offered (and is shown above) a step further, if I go into a department store and a light fixture falls on my head, I will first hold the department store responsible, not the company commissioned by the department store to install that light fixture.

In my research I have found that Microsoft's legal team seems to like to use that choice of vocabulary, "company commissioned".

As I think I have noted in previous posts, I intend to do as much research as possible until it's time to go to snail mail.

By the way, my fellow customers, the Microsoft Research Panel is only interested in having members join who live in the United States or Canada.  Funny what information you can pick up when doing research like this.

HFM47

This is a peer to peer site staffed mostly by volunteers who have little or no contact with Microsoft.  You will not get a "management type" to respond to this thread.

I suspect you, like the rest of us, will have to ferret out what information you can via the usual public sources

IMHO  Microsoft will do what ever it likes with the data and I act accordingly.  They own the system and have rigged it to their advantage.

Good luck

ZigZag3143, I hope you'll forgive the lateness in concluding this part of the research I think I need to do before this matter is moved to snail mail, or other entities.  One problem with this kind of research is recording everything and I usually use screen shots, as can be seen in a post above.  Just that one aspect of research caused me to have to store 16 or 17 screen shots.  Can't remember the exact number at this time.  Total so far, I have hundreds.

Anyway, I just wanted to post that while you might be correct about management types not posting here, there are a fair number of employees posting around here.  I can now state I have that evidence.  You might think that is a stupid thing to have to confirm, but when doing something like this, everything has to be done right.  You know that expression, no stone bla-bla-bla.

There is also the forum owner, and as I see there are a few stickies around this forum, the forum owners are not buried in so much other work that they don't poke around their area of responsibility at least occasionally.

The reason this is important is because ignoring an issue that somebody is working very hard to place before you is, in some cultures, impolite.  I think one of those cultures where it is impolite is in North America, yes?

But I had to gather the evidence that employees are around or I couldn't make the assertion that I am being ignored.

Oh yes, my fellow customers, an interesting tidbit I picked up during that research noted in a few posts above:

THIS:

http://survey.surveysite.com/wi/p234872763/privacy.htm

Windows Web Site Survey Privacy Statement

(Last updated: July 1, 2013)

You see that is from surveysite.com BUT the title is "Windows Web Site ..."  I would think the stock brokers would be stunned if they thought that surveysite.com owned the name 'Windows' and we know they don't.

So if you are going to try to convince me that you are not responsible for a third-party privacy policy then you better get your name out of / off of the title of that privacy statement.