Comment by t-3
1 day ago
If you design it so you don't have access to the data, how do you make money?
Microsoft (and every other corporation) wants your data. They don't want to be a responsible custodian of your data, they want to sell it and use it for advertising and maintaining good relationships with governments around the world.
> If you design it so you don't have access to the data, how do you make money?
The same way companies used to make money, before they started bulk harvesting of data and forcing ads into products that we're _already_ _paying_ _for_?
I wish people would have integrity instead of squeezing out every little bit of profit from us they can.
People arguably cannot have integrity unless all other companies they compete with also have integrity. The answer is legislation. We have no reason to allow our government to use “private” companies to do what they cannot then turn over the results to government agencies. Especially when willfully incompetence.
The same can be said of using “allies” to mutually snoop on citizens then turning over data.
I think you’re conflating lots of different types of data into one giant “data.”
Microsoft does not sell / use for advertising data from your Bitlocked laptop.
They do use the following for advertising:
Name / contact data Demographic data Subscription data Interactions
This seems like what a conspiracy theorist would imagine a giant evil corporation does.
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/privacy/usstateprivacynotice