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by Eggpants 759 days ago
Except the user license agreement states Microsoft can upload/download anything, run anything, and ignore any user setting on “your” computer.
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throwaway5959 759 days ago
Can you link me to that? I’d like to read it.
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Eggpants 759 days ago
https://privacy.microsoft.com/en-US/data-collection-Windows

Noting. The middle of the page: Note – Consumer users can’t turn off essential services.

And here https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/topic/essential-services...

Now ask yourself how can Microsoft get away with not allowing the user to turn off services? Because it’s in the EULA.

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Eggpants 759 days ago
You have to navigate all the side links of this page https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/servicesagreement/ and the separated privacy policy,

But here’s a good starting point in Paragraph 2.b It’s been modified slightly since I last captured this snippet:

[...] you grant to Microsoft a worldwide and royalty-free intellectual property license to use Your Content, for example, to make copies of, retain, transmit, reformat, display, and distribute via communication tools Your Content on the Services [...]

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