[dimman]

From the MS blog mentioned I find this section, or how it's formulated, rather interesting and disturbing:

"3. Advertising Data We Don’t Collect

Unlike some other platforms, no matter what privacy options you choose, neither Windows 10 nor any other Microsoft software scans the content of your email or other communications, or your files, in order to deliver targeted advertising to you."

Most people would read that as "MS doesn't scan your files, communication or email period" when it in fact just mentions one case in which they dont...

[bitwize]

Sometimes "scanning the content of your email or your files" is a desirable feature, for example in an antivirus program.

[imtringued]

And that's okay as long as the data doesn't leave your computer.

[gottam]

It's because they DO look through people's files for their own purposes. Example:

https://blog.onedrive.com/onedrive_changes/

> a small number of users backed up numerous PCs and stored entire movie collections and DVR recordings.

I'm pretty certain they didn't get permission to look at their users movie collections or DVR recordings, they were just flagged for high usage and they went right in to see what those users were storing. For any form of data collection they do, it's a guarantee they're analyzing the outliers... in fact they're practically bragging about the fact they do.

[Terr_]

"But we WILL spy on everything you do to figure out if our untargeted advertisements are working, and to create detailed profiles which we could share with other companies who do send out ads..."