Microsoft Denies Windows 8 App Spying Via SmartScreen 198
An anonymous reader writes "Microsoft has denied Windows 8 SmartScreen is spying after research by Nadim Kobeissi indicated otherwise." Whether it's "spying" or not, Microsoft is collecting certain information with SmartScreen — the key is what's done with it: The article quotes a Microsoft spokesperson: "We don’t use this data to identify, contact or target advertising to our users and we don’t share it with third parties."
Disable it! (Score:5, Informative)
Re:Disable it! (Score:3, Informative)
There is a check box where you can disable this 'feature' before installation. Nothing to see here....
Why is the parent moded -1?
Re:Disable it! (Score:5, Informative)
Look in his history: His Karma is negative. The comment hasn't even been modded.
Re:Sounds lke the same thing as Google (Score:4, Informative)
"Yep.. when you get a new 'droid....automatically reinstall...wonder how that happens."
Not much to wonder about, on Android you have to opt-in to this service.
Settings -> Privacy:
Back up my data [ ]
A more reasonable story (Score:4, Informative)
Re:Disable it! (Score:5, Informative)
However (Score:3, Informative)
Apple knows not only what applications you have, when you use them, how many times you use them, but where you are down to a resolution of 10m anywhere on the planet you are, at anytime.
doesnt matter if you are a politician, gangster or regular joe
and you are worried about Microsoft ? lol
bottom line is:
do you trust an "American" multi national company with your personal data ?
Re:Disable it! (Score:5, Informative)
Here is a link to my comment from yesterday, which has the exact text relevant to smart screen you encounter on install: http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=3070309&cid=41111521 [slashdot.org]
Re:Disable it! (Score:4, Informative)
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Re:Disable it! (Score:4, Informative)
Nope. I'd rather have a local database, even though I assume that's more difficult to keep up-to-date with what I imagine are rapidly changing blacklists. Firefox, for example does this.
But this behavior is (unfortunately) pretty bog standard, and in the case of IE, it's nothing new, so it seems a little bizarre to get all outraged about it now when all Microsoft has added is a check on file download hashes.