Privacy issue to reignite with user tracking data disclosure on Windows 10

Microsoft announced on January 4, 2016 that its OS "Windows 10"Operate with over 200 million devicesWhat you are doingAnnouncement, And revealed that the user's satisfaction level is very high compared with the past Windows version. In addition to the number of Windows 10 operating devices, user tracking data was also released, but users and security experts are worried about privacy concerns.

Microsoft reveals details of Windows 10 usage tracking - BBC News
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In the data of Windows 10 which Microsoft released earlier in the new year, "the number of questions asked to Cortana of speech recognition assistant is 2.5 billion," the time spent in browser's Microsoft Edge is over 4.45 billion minutes " The number of Bing search searches increased by 30% compared with previous versions of Windows "," more than 82 billion images viewed with image viewer photos "," PC game play time is over 4 billion hours ", etc. It contained tracking data other than numbers.


According to the British national broadcast BBC, among users who saw the contents of data published by Microsoft, there were a lot of people who suspected that the published tracking data does not violate privacy? about. Microsoft released in September 2015blog"Windows 10 gathers data for product improvement," as officially acknowledges that it collects user usage data through Windows 10, as stated in " However, there are not many things users can grasp about the contents of collected data. In other words, what kind of data is being gathered is not being thoroughly notified to users.

When BBC asked Microsoft's spokesperson about privacy of Windows 10, "Microsoft is making every effort to protect your privacy, the information published on 4th January 2016 is standard It enables us to bring the best experience to our customers.While blogs we released in September we are committed to leading the industry in terms of privacy protection. " And that.

University of Surrey, UK, Department of Computer ScienceAlan · WoodwardProfessor in regards to Microsoft's data tracking "Data seems to be gathered for the improvement of Windows 10, but the problem is how long the collected data is stored, the data collected by Microsoft in Windows 10 UX improvements.We are also worried that many data are being collected if you keep the default settings after installation.You can understand what is going on when using Windows 10 There will be users who are not, "he said.

ByBob Mical

When Windows 10 is released,Sharing a lot of personal information with Microsoft when setting as default at the time of installationAndEven if you turn off privacy settings, you communicate with Microsoft's server and send dataIt turned out that it was doing, there was concern about the privacy problem. After that, Microsoft blogged the validity and safety of data collection by blogging, but with this announcement, the privacy problem of Windows 10 is rekindled.