but yet you ignore these things on the previous operating systems you use?
you should read the terms and conditions on contracts like your cable service, phone service, internet service, and any program you install on your computer.
you will find things like that in almost every contract i assure you
have you even read the terms and conditions for the official release or are you just dragging conclusions from the outdated clickbait articles on the internet?
C'mon man, I'm trying to do this in the most civil way possible. Most other contracts say that they will share and even sell some info yes, but never before has a company gone as far as to explicitly say that they will share all the private files on your computer with anyone who asks if it complies with law. There was nothing in win7 that said that, nothing in win8 or win8.1. That's why I'm using them at all, because they haven't explicitly said that there is that functionality in place. From a computer security standpoint, that's actually bad. Ideally, if you don't know what the code is that's running on your computer, you shouldn't run it. That's why I'm trying to make the switch to Linux. It's well understood and open source, no privacy policies or EULAs or TOS's.
The reason I don't like accessibility of data is because you never know what's happening to your data, and you don't have control over it. It's like having security cameras in every corner of your house (Including private places like bedrooms and showers), and they don't have an indicator light! It's not only incredibly unsettling but it's a massive invasion of privacy whether or not they claimed to have been turned on. It could also be compared to having a trojan on your computer. Microsoft could be automatically siphoning users data for all we know, or maybe they're doing nothing. A hacker could figure out how it works and steal any info they want, without Microsoft ever figuring out about it. Someone could have already figured it out for all we know, believe it or not, not all hacks are disclosed publicly or ever found out about. That's the worst part: Knowing that someone could be sitting on all your private info just waiting to release it.
Also, on the point of MS being ruined if even a single persons data got leaked: Let's do a thought experiment. Let's take the most likely route: Inside job. Let's say one of the sysadmins disclosed 100 users credit card files by fetching their info from their private files on their computer.
Microsoft fires everyone involved, offers $10k to all of those affected and makes a statement saying "Here at Microsoft we take your privacy seriously. We're taking extensive measures including tightening security to make sure this never, ever happens again."
That's just along the lines of what those other companies did: They had access to private info on their clients, someone leaked it (The same kind of info from the other leaks too), they fired everyone, offered settlements, and made a comforting statement. Given this is exactly what the other companies did, do you think they would be ruined? If so, why?
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