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France: Windows 10 collects 'excessive personal data'
betanews ^ | July 20, 2016 | Mark Wilson

Posted on 07/20/2016 3:48:24 PM PDT by Dalberg-Acton

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To: CodeToad

Does wireshark only monitor traffic, or can it also prevent traffic with specific ip addresses, too?


21 posted on 07/20/2016 6:09:12 PM PDT by Vision Thing (hillarhoids says, "I am not a crooked hillary!")
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To: Dalberg-Acton

#NEVERTEN


22 posted on 07/20/2016 7:33:27 PM PDT by Allen In Texas Hill Country
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To: Windflier; Fungi

Oh go ahead! I am happily using a new computer Win7 I got last year! Have never heard from Windows or MS.

Guess that is because I never *activated* or registered.
Actually I didn’t know what those words meant until just now when I thought I would read what they were before posting this.

The first thing I did was shut off that auto update.


23 posted on 07/20/2016 8:00:09 PM PDT by PraiseTheLord (have you seen the fema camps, shackle box cars, thousands of guillotines, stacks of coffins ~)
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To: Vision Thing

It only monitors. It is meant as a monitoring tool.


24 posted on 07/20/2016 8:22:16 PM PDT by CodeToad (Islam should be banned and treated as a criminal enterprise!)
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To: PraiseTheLord

“The first thing I did was shut off that auto update.”

That would explain why you never got nagged by Microsoft to upgade to 10.

I’d like to have my automatic updates turned on, so that my Windows 7 operating system is kept up to date until 2020. I’ve only got another week level, and I can safely boot up the new computer without having to worry that it’ll be hijacked by Microsoft.


25 posted on 07/20/2016 8:33:56 PM PDT by Windflier (Pitchforks and torches ripen on the vine. Left too long, they become black rifles.)
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To: Dalberg-Acton

I went into control panel in Windows 10 and shut off all the data collection. Wicked easy!


26 posted on 07/21/2016 6:34:01 AM PDT by Snowybear
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To: Snowybear

How do you know it worked?


27 posted on 07/21/2016 9:39:36 AM PDT by Dalberg-Acton
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