Microsoft, in a blog post on Monday, shared some statistics on the popularity of its Windows platform 10. Besides showing the success of the platform, the post also pointed out some serious privacy issues associated with Windows 10 - concerns that have been previously reported in July. . In short, Microsoft collects vast amounts of data and spying on Windows 10 users
As BGR summarizes the blog included "milestones" following Microsoft
- The people spent more than 11 billion hours of Windows 10 in December alone.
- more than 44.5 billion minutes spent in Microsoft Windows 10 between edge devices in just the last month.
- more than 2.5 billion questions to Cortana since its launch.
- Approximately 30% of over Bing search queries by Windows 10 device against earlier versions of Windows.
- over 82 billion photos viewed in Windows 10 camera app.
- Gaming continues to grow on Windows 10 - in 2015, gamers have spent more than 4 billion hours playing PC games on Windows 10.
- players have listened to more than 6, 6 million hours of Xbox one Windows 10 PC games
clearly Microsoft collects a large amount of information about its users and their behavior. As described by Forbes, "This is a crazy amount, but what's even crazier is the revelation that Microsoft is tracking exactly how long each user uses Windows 10."
Microsoft admit some of these practices openly in their privacy policies, but these data, they shared willfully is alarming nonetheless.
this again illustrates the large amount of user data businesses have access to, and the importance of reading and understanding the privacy policies and take measures to protect your privacy online.
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