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by Krasnol 2263 days ago
It's not "just" the OS, it's O365 too. Teams is a part of it.

And yeah, this is MS' attitude to privacy issues. The fact that nobody cares about that or doesn't want to write an article about it every day doesn't mean that it's less worse or somehow good. Zoom has been there for years too, just like those problems. The fact that now everybody DOES want to write an article about it is a result of the fact that it became so popular and it became so popular because it just works. Acting now as if MS is some kind of privacy heaven compared to Zoom is plainly wrong.

> The only solution that would probably work for the German standards (and is something the EU should be investing heavily in anyways) would be Linux.

This is not true. There were guidelines by the Federal Office for Information Security for Win7 that would work just like for certain versions of Office. Windows 10 is the first one where they plainly say: it's so ridden with privacy issues that it's just bad (data protection and privacy accident) and you should avoid it.