XPost: comp.mobile.android, alt.comp.os.windows-10
From: nospam@needed.invalid
On 12/6/2023 10:37 AM, Wally J wrote:
> If Microsoft truly stopped using the SSID "_optout_" directive in the 2016
> anniversary addition of Windows10, then why then do they maintain this?
>
>
> That site was kindly confirmed by Andy Burns in the Android newsgroup
>
>
> Given 99.9 out of 100 people are not only incredibly ignorant but also
> unfathomably rude to everyone around them, I don't want to be one of them.
>
> I am aware most phone owners are incredibly rude to everyone around them by
> uploading your exact GPS location & unique AP BSSID to Google, but are all
> the PC's around you also just as rudely giving your location to Microsoft?
>
> *Microsoft supposedly _stopped_ doing that, didn't they?*
>
> So why then, does Microsoft _still maintain_ that optout location database?
>
According to this, they're still doing it.
https://support.microsoft.com/en-au/office/learn-more-about-your
location-sharing-privacy-in-microsoft-teams-free-d97a9da3-eded-4
1c-8008-52f3a0661ba7
Really, unless a company has been convicted in court, and stands
to be held for contempt of court, I doubt there is much reason
to do what they said they would be doing. Google at one time, claiming
they would not be evil. I don't think Microsoft ever took an evil-oath, so...
When Microsoft added News and Interests, the "weather bug" does not
have a control like other applications do, and it is going to attempt
to measure your location, so it can "tell you the weather". And you
will notice, "News and Interests" does not turn off -- only the visual
manifestation is removed. We don't know what is going on when the
visuals are removed.
Paul
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