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What level of text data does Windows store and potentially upload to Microsoft?
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If it was true, Microsoft would already have "fixed" Windows 10 given the number of complaints, especially about updates, that are typed into Google.gabriel73195 wrote: »Is there any truth in the notion that if you have the privacy settings set in a certain way that every single word you type on Windows 10 gets sent up to the Microsoft servers and stored forever?0 -
According to the conspiracy theories anyone with an iPhone is being listened to all the time. That's why the CIA/NSA/FBI/ made Apple make it with a none removable battery.0
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Central Intelligence Agency with that grammatical error!
Either you've mis-read (the CIA allegedly responded to the comment - they didn't make the original comment), or you're commenting on the fact that the word Intelligence in their name looks odd in their response. (Hard to tell if it's a capital or small letter I).
Which is it? The latter I hope, else the joke's on you.
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Nopegabriel73195 wrote: »Is there any truth in the notion that if you have the privacy settings set in a certain way that every single word you type on Windows 10 gets sent up to the Microsoft servers and stored forever?
Nope.gabriel73195 wrote: »What about if you use your voice to speak to Cortana, does every word you utter into the microphone get permanently stored in the Microsoft servers?0 -
I can verify that my phone pad box thing does not listen when the current Mrs Blackbeard rings!0
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Blackbeard_of_Perranporth wrote: »I can verify that my phone pad box thing does not listen when the current Mrs Blackbeard rings!
But is the current Mrs Blackbeard listening when the previous Mrs Blackbeard rings?
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Have you any idea how much storage that would take?
I keep some old junk that ought to be thrown out, but this notion takes hoarding to the next level.0 -
I dont know about before the wake up word, but everything after is - I went back the other day and listened to some of mine - and i have to say my taste in music after a few beers is quite shocking!0
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gabriel73195 wrote: »Oh I love this question or comment! I have read that there's enough storage in existence to record every single word that has EVER been uttered on the planet. Isn't that an interesting tidbit or factoid?
I read similar, but "problem" GCHQ, CIA etc have is the sheer amount of the stuff, easy to filter out K*lashnikov using AI, but harder to spot intent when mixed in with the knitting patterns, pouting teenagers & cute kittensWhen an eel bites your bum, that's a Moray0 -
Run Spybot Anti-Beacon to fix the problem:
https://www.safer-networking.org/products/spybot-anti-beacon/0
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