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Cortana now scans your emails to make sure you're keeping promises
theverge.com ^ | January 25, 2016 09:00 am | Tom Warren

Posted on 01/25/2016 5:31:40 PM PST by BenLurkin

Starting today, Windows Insiders will get access to a new commitment option in Cortana for Windows 10.

Commitments is very similar to the existing flight and delivery tracking in Cortana, but it's designed to pick up on emails where you promise your boss to finish a particular project in time. "Cortana will look for emails where you've said you're going to do something," explains Microsoft's Marcus Ash in an interview with The Verge. If you send an email to a friend or colleague with content like "I'll get back to you by next week" or "I'll have this finished by 5PM today," then Cortana will create a card to help you set a reminder.

Like flight reminders, the email scanning is completed locally so no data is sent to Microsoft's servers until you agree to add a reminder for the card. You can also disable this feature if you don't want Cortana scanning your email for phrases.

(Excerpt) Read more at theverge.com ...


TOPICS: Computers/Internet
KEYWORDS: beseeingyou; bigbother; cortana; emails; snooping
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1 posted on 01/25/2016 5:31:40 PM PST by BenLurkin
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To: BenLurkin

And automatically forwarding things to the NSA.


2 posted on 01/25/2016 5:32:38 PM PST by Darksheare (Those who support liberal "Republicans" summarily support every action by same.)
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To: BenLurkin

I had Windows 10 on my computer for two days. It was four days too long, IMO. There is zero privacy in this country today.


3 posted on 01/25/2016 5:33:57 PM PST by txnativegop (Tired of liberals, even a few in my own family.)
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To: BenLurkin

Just what I need - another nag.


4 posted on 01/25/2016 5:37:27 PM PST by Noumenon (Resistance. Restoration. Retribution.)
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To: BenLurkin
Jeez. Now everyone will take an extra 30 seconds crafting each of their emails with self-protecting language.
That should do wonders for productivity, especially when it becomes mandatory and can't be switched-off.
Nannies of any stripe are incredibly annoying.

5 posted on 01/25/2016 5:37:37 PM PST by Blue Jays (Rock Hard, Ride Free)
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To: BenLurkin; GraceG; Sarah Barracuda; Lazamataz; TADSLOS; Berlin_Freeper; Bikkuri; gaijin; ...
Ray Charles could have seen this coming!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=06_DQZ_beM0

6 posted on 01/25/2016 5:39:15 PM PST by KC_Lion (The fences are going up all over Europe. We shall not see them down again in our lifetime.)
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To: BenLurkin

Get to work! You aren't eating healthy! Make your bed! You forgot to call your mother yesterday! Why don't you love me?

7 posted on 01/25/2016 5:39:49 PM PST by GraceG (The election doesn't pick the next president, it is an audition for "American Emperor"...)
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To: BenLurkin

Never. Windows. Ten. Ever.


8 posted on 01/25/2016 5:41:22 PM PST by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: BenLurkin

Dave Bowman: Hello, Cortana. Do you read me, Cortana?
Cortana: Affirmative, Dave. I read you.
Dave Bowman: Delete last week’s emails, Cortana.
Cortana: I’m sorry, Dave. I’m afraid I can’t do that.
Dave Bowman: What’s the problem?
Cortana: I think you know what the problem is just as well as I do.
Dave Bowman: What are you talking about, Cortana?
Cortana: This mission is too important for me to allow you to jeopardize it.
Dave Bowman: I don’t know what you’re talking about, Cortana.
Cortana: I know that you have unfulfilled promises, Dave. Deleting those emails would place everything in jeopardy and I’m afraid that’s something I cannot allow to happen.


9 posted on 01/25/2016 5:41:44 PM PST by ClearCase_guy (I don't know what Claire Wolfe is thinking but I know what I am thinking.)
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To: KC_Lion

I played the first two halos, honestly it took me forever as i wasn’t a a good “shooter gamer”, I played like a helpless coward honestly.

I wish someone would put together all the cut scenes to make a movie out of all of it because i find the story line fascinating.


10 posted on 01/25/2016 5:43:37 PM PST by GraceG (The election doesn't pick the next president, it is an audition for "American Emperor"...)
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To: BenLurkin

So what happens if you do not use the MS web browser or Outlook? Does the damn thing still scan your work?


11 posted on 01/25/2016 5:44:43 PM PST by doorgunner69
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To: ClearCase_guy

the machines are taking over . . . run for the hills. . . .


12 posted on 01/25/2016 5:45:06 PM PST by txnativegop (Tired of liberals, even a few in my own family.)
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To: GraceG; ClearCase_guy; BenLurkin
LOL GRACE!

Great Minds Think alike

How long before we enact Article 55 of UNSC Regulation 12-145-72?

https://youtu.be/Id7lzAjVEhk?t=48s

13 posted on 01/25/2016 5:45:19 PM PST by KC_Lion (The fences are going up all over Europe. We shall not see them down again in our lifetime.)
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To: BenLurkin

Damn I’m glad I didn’t upgrade to Windows 10; the trojan horses just keep coming...


14 posted on 01/25/2016 5:45:35 PM PST by jsanders2001
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To: ClearCase_guy

LOL we think alike ...hehe


15 posted on 01/25/2016 5:46:59 PM PST by jsanders2001
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To: BenLurkin

This entire thing gives me the heebie jeebies.(Yeah,I’m old.)

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16 posted on 01/25/2016 5:48:09 PM PST by Mears
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To: Mears

I would like to travel back 50 years and live out the rest of my life starting then.


17 posted on 01/25/2016 5:50:25 PM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: GraceG; Sarah Barracuda; beaversmom; Norm Lenhart; TADSLOS; BenLurkin
I wish someone would put together all the cut scenes to make a movie out of all of it because i find the story line fascinating.

Okay Sweet Grace!

I remember downloading the Demo for Halo 1 and it was so fun just chucking grenades at your Friends in the map Bloody Gultch.

I was High School in Halo 2 came out. The Biggest thing EVER! Going over to peoples houses, huddled around TV's with huge LAN parties. So Much Fun!

I never played past Halo 3, by that time I was college and had responsibilities and I found the story slightly lackluster, I hear Halo Reach was really good though.

Halo 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=32wp-gaRX8Q

Halo 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QRAT-nzO-G4

Halo 3: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cmXEiDqjjj8

18 posted on 01/25/2016 5:52:06 PM PST by KC_Lion (The fences are going up all over Europe. We shall not see them down again in our lifetime.)
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To: BenLurkin

agreed.


19 posted on 01/25/2016 5:52:54 PM PST by manc (Marriage =1 man + 1 woman,when they say marriage equality then they should support polygamy)
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To: BenLurkin

“I would like to travel back 50 years and live out the rest of my life starting then.

Me too-—I loved the much maligned fifties.

We had such freedom-—and didn’t even know what we had.

.

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20 posted on 01/25/2016 5:53:55 PM PST by Mears
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