Software giant Microsoft's recently released operating system, Windows 10, reportedly invades users' privacy. After the company rolled out Windows 10, various experts claimed that the company has little regard when it comes to privacy. These experts allege that Windows 10's pre-installed settings collect all available information from users, and the pre-installed settings were branded as "intrusive defaults," a report from RT said on Monday.
The information that Microsoft reportedly collects from its global users are location history, text messages, emails, personal contacts, calendar notes and personal information which were shared and accessed via Microsoft's Windows 10. According to Tech Times, Microsoft's Windows 10 operating system has been released with a flaw. The "huge" flaw was reportedly spotted days after the said operating system was globally released last July 29. Microsoft's Windows 10 is said to gather personal information privately by default and without user's knowledge at all.
However, it is said that a provision of the Windows 10 Privacy Statement categorically states that the operating system will access and disclose any type of personal data including its contents as deemed necessary by Microsoft.
"We will access, disclose and preserve personal data, including your content (such as the content of your emails, other private communications or files in private folders), when we have a good faith belief that doing so is necessary," reads Microsoft's Windows 10 Privacy Statement as quoted in the Tech Times website.
Microsoft reasoned out that gathering both personal and private data complies with legal orders and are meant to protect the company's consumers from spam or physical harm. The company also said that by doing so it will prevent any type of cyber-attacks, which will potentially target Microsoft users, and eventually protect Microsoft's rights and properties. The information collected by Microsoft Windows 10 will be utilized to improve the performance of Microsoft's personal assistant Cortana, Tech Times noted.
