What does Microsoft do with my contacts list?

Anonymous
2015-02-17T14:30:24+00:00

I tried to sign up to receive email information from the program related to the Windows 10 upgrade and during the process I was informed that Microsoft wants to have access to my contacts list.

Now that is a very serious request, so there must be a fair bit of documentation about why Microsoft wants access to my contacts list -- where might that documentation be found?

What exactly will Microsoft do with my contacts list?

Who at Microsoft will be able to view the list?

And I will probably have more questions as those answers come in.

I did try to use the search tool here for answers, but without any luck, so if I made a mistake during that search, please forgive me.

Thank you to all that may be able to offer some help here.

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Anonymous
2015-02-19T17:13:06+00:00

Hi,

I understand the importance of you query. Please get in touch with the Microsoft Privacy Response Center who would be able to assist you.

Thank you.

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  1. Anonymous
    2015-04-16T20:56:44+00:00

    Actually, the problem is very likely that I have asked some rather uncomfortable questions and nobody is authorized to answer them out here in public.

    What the Microsoft executives are not going to like is the solution I have arrived at to get this to the attention of a larger group of the world's population.  That "solution" came to me just a few minutes or so after deciding one night to get some sleep.  I don't even know why it came into my mind.  I even tried to ignore it for a few minutes, but the freshness of the idea just couldn't be stuffed away in a storage area of my brain and I finally got up and made some notes.

    And it will be so much fun to write what I am going to write.  It will be a dramatization and it is pefectly legal, if I state right at the beginning I am doing a dramatization and the people and such are represented by fictitious characters to protect everyone involved, to include this company.

    But you know how a dramatization works, everyone knows who you are writing about.

    So if I can get a couple hundred thousand people asking what's going on I will get much better results than if I spend lots of money going to the legal system and asking them to ask this company what's up.  And I sure will have a lot more fun doing the writing.  I've already started on this one.

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  2. Anonymous
    2015-04-16T20:43:31+00:00

    I believe they are too busy trying to fix all the broken windows phones to even care. I suspect they want the status quo to stay as it is

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  3. Anonymous
    2015-04-16T20:35:06+00:00

    Excuse me, sir, but why can't I receive any answers here?

    We really appreciate your feedback. I request you to kindly provide your valuable feedback on the feedback app which is installed with Windows 10 Technical preview.

    Find the link on how to share the feedback:

    How to share feedback on Windows 10 Technical Preview

    http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows\_tp-winipp/how-to-share-feedback-on-windows-10-technical/5e501781-a580-43e3-8926-40ae19343805

    I asked very specific questions at the outset and what have I received for my efforts?

    And now you are asking me to submit more information on another form.  Why?

    And what about the other customers here that have indicated a desire to see some answers to my questions?  They are to be ignored, also?

    So I will ask, again -- why can't we receive any answers right here?

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  4. Anonymous
    2015-04-04T05:18:35+00:00

    We really appreciate your feedback. I request you to kindly provide your valuable feedback on the feedback app which is installed with Windows 10 Technical preview.

    Find the link on how to share the feedback:

    How to share feedback on Windows 10 Technical Preview

    http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows\_tp-winipp/how-to-share-feedback-on-windows-10-technical/5e501781-a580-43e3-8926-40ae19343805

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