Privacy Tip:
Make Windows 10 More Privacy Friendly if You Must Use It | |
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Windows 10 may be “free,” but that gift comes at a high price to your privacy.
Slate writer and software engineer Michael Auerbach notes that, “By default, Windows 10 gives itself the right to pass loads of your data to Microsoft’s servers, use your bandwidth for Microsoft’s own purposes, and profile your Windows usage.”
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These are serious concerns, especially in light of Microsoft’s lengthy new privacy policy and services agreement that contain provisions like the following:
...We will access, disclose and preserve personal data, including your content (such as the content of your emails, other private communications or files in private folders), when we have a good faith belief that doing so is necessary....
If you (or someone you care about) must use Windows 10, click here for a step-by-step guide to making this new Microsoft operating system a bit more privacy friendly.
But note that even if you take all precautions, Ars Technica’s Peter Bright reports that Windows 10 still phones home some data to Microsoft.
Before you give in to Microsoft, look below for our next tip.
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Looking for an alternative to Microsoft’s Windows 10?
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Check out Linux! Linux is a free, open source operating system, and one of its many versions (referred to as “distributions” or “distros”) could be the perfect solution for you.
Choosing the right Linux option and installing it the first time does take some effort, but the payoff is freedom from Microsoft. Click here for a terrific guide to Linux distributions for beginners by Chris Hoffman of PCWorld.
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