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France Drops Windows 10 Privacy Case - Ecks - 07-01-2017
There have been lots of complaints about invasion of privacy since the release of Windows 10. Microsoft's telemetry lead to several lawsuits, including one from France's National Data Protection Commission which said Windows 10 was collecting 'excessive personal data' about users. But now the Commission Nationale de l'Informatique et des Libert's has decided to drop its case against Microsoft. The commission is happy that sufficient steps have been taken to reduce the amount of data that is collected and users are now informed about data collection.
Read More @ https://betanews.com/2017/06/30/france-frops-windows-10-privacy-case/
RE: France Drops Windows 10 Privacy Case - protonrotuing - 07-01-2017
Microsoft probably paid them off, considering the fact that Microsoft makes more profit off selling user data than losing the user data and dropping some cash.
RE: France Drops Windows 10 Privacy Case - mothered - 07-01-2017
It's probably for the best.
Litigation against a corporation on the scale of Microsoft, will be a pretty difficult process.