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Privacy; Consent to Use of Data. Your privacy is important to us. ... By accepting this agreement and using the software you agree that Microsoft may collect, use, and disclose the information as described in the Microsoft Privacy Statement...
Microsoft Privacy Statement[^]
In the language of lawyers (I asked two) it means that you are agree that Microsoft collect and use data from your computer in any way likes...
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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Kornfeld Eliyahu Peter wrote: Microsoft collect and use data from your computer in any way likes...
I'd get a new lawyer if I were you. 
The statement you quoted clearly refers to "the information as described in the Microsoft Privacy Statement". That doesn't mean absolutely anything they want to collect; if it's not described in the privacy statement, it's not covered.
And as for "in any way it likes", the privacy statement clearly sets out the ways they'll use the data they collect. If it actually meant they could do what they like with your data, they'd be facing class action lawsuits by now.
That's not to say they can't take all of your data and do what they like with it; that's just not what the privacy statement says.
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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Wrong...It is true that the privacy statement referenced, but not included, and for that it can be changed whenever Microsoft want's and you still obliged to it...
More of it...In the next update Microsoft can add a new 'feature' that collects data from your computer without any acknowledge from your part...As long as there is an 'off' switch for the feature somewhere in the system Microsoft covered (even you do not know of it)...
Believe these lawyers - they are the dirtiest mind around...
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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Yes, they could change the privacy policy in the future. But that doesn't mean that the privacy policy as currently worded gives them carte-blanche to collect whatever they want from your system and use it however they want.
Next week, they could decide to update their privacy policy to say that you agree to give them your first born child. That doesn't mean they're coming to collect your baby today.
And AFAIK, in most legal systems, one party cannot make and enforce unilateral changes to a contract without consent from the other party.
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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Richard Deeming wrote: And AFAIK, in most legal systems, one party cannot make and enforce unilateral changes to a contract without consent from the other party.
True but not strictly relevant in this case, particularly if you haven't paid for it. The real point is that the OS is an at will arrangement on your part. You are not tied in to anything. You can at any time simply stop using it in part or in whole (despite the paranoid insistence above use of Cortana and the like is entirely optional) without needing to give notice or explanation. Microsoft can enforce changes on the agreement in the sense that it's their club and their rules. But you are under no obligation to join the club or, having joined, see out your membership.
I am not a number. I am a ... no, wait!
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My stock of excellent tinfoil hats is always available! I take PayPal.
I am not a number. I am a ... no, wait!
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Ancient Zygote wrote: Google, for example, routinely uses data that passes through its various services, but I for one have always made a distinction between what I choose to do in a cloud environment (email, cloud store) vs. my own private computer.
What do you make of the Chromebook?
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I like the idea of the Chromebook. It makes it clear what it is. I certainly would not choose to make it my primary computing device, for the reasons I have already given.
I am not opposed to multiple computing/Internet venues/environments, but I think we should be clear about which one we are in---and let the market provide a new one if the previous owner (of the market) decides to move on.
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Paragraphs man... think about it.
Jeremy Falcon
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I second that! 
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
Anonymous
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The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine
Winston Churchill, 1944
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I'd just like a chance to prove that money can't make me happy.
Me, all the time
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Here is a great intro to Hg source control.
It is a great walkthrough tutorial by Joel Spolsky of Joel On Software fame.
HgInit: Ground Up Mercurial[^]
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Nice.
/ravi
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3 things in this life are certain:
1) Birth (oops, not since 1973 in the U.S.)
2) Taxes (oops, again, not since 1973 in the U.S.)
3) Death (damn; that ain't no life...)
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MacSpudster wrote: Death
Death is just a another birth into another life.
Decrease the belief in God, and you increase the numbers of those who wish to play at being God by being “society’s supervisors,” who deny the existence of divine standards, but are very serious about imposing their own standards on society.-Neal A. Maxwell
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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Take it to the Soapbox.
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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Amen.
«Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.» Benjamin Franklin
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MacSpudster wrote: 3 things in this life are certain:
Web Idiots?
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jschell wrote: Web Idiots?
There's got to be more than 3 of them Shirley!
I am not a number. I am a ... no, wait!
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There are.
And don't call them Shirley.
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Two questions:
1) What are you smoking?
2) Did you bring enough to share?
Will Rogers never met me.
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I'm smoking Canadian Goose.
And, with 30, you betcha I got enough to share! 
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Here[^]
Male/Female person who will do the work at our Upland based company
.. as apposed to...what...??
If it's not broken, fix it until it is
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Kevin Marois wrote: .. as apposed to...what...??
Caitlyn Jenner?
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I suppose then that would be a Male-Female Person... Or perhaps Male->Female Person?
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As opposed to only male person.
I'd rather be phishing!
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