>France orders Microsoft to stop tracking Windows 10 users
>France's data protection commission has ordered Microsoft to "stop collecting excessive user data" and to stop tracking the web browsing of Windows 10 users without their consent. In a notice published on Wednesday, the CNIL said that Microsoft must also take steps to guarantee "the security and confidentiality" of its users' personal information, after determining that the company was still transferring data to the US under the "Safe Harbor" agreement that an EU court invalidated in October. Microsoft has three months to comply with the orders, the CNIL said.
>The CNIL says it decided to issue the notice due to the "seriousness of the breaches and the number of individuals concerned," saying there are more than 10 million Windows users in France. The CNIL found that Microsoft is collecting "excessive" data on Windows 10 users, including the specific apps they download and how much time they spend on each one. The organization added that the company uses cookies to serve personalized ads without properly informing users or allowing them to opt out, and that the four-character PIN system used to access Microsoft services is insecure, because there is no limit on the number of attempts a user can make.
>If Microsoft does not comply within the three-month window, the CNIL says it may appoint an investigator who could recommend sanctions against the company. "The purpose of the notice is not to prohibit any advertising on the company’s services but, rather, to enable users to make their choice freely, having been properly informed of their rights," the CNIL said in a statement.
>tl;dr France's CNIL ordered MIcrosoft to stop tracking it's users and Microsoft must comply within 3 months
they'll be too busy dealing with muslim riots to worry about computer stuff
Liam Ward
In the Facebook era nobody cares about security anymore. UE is fighting with windmills.
Blake Smith
user, I come here to escape this shit the sole reason I'm a social outcast is because I can't stop getting upset about Islam so pls stop talking about it here of all places, I beg you
Nathan Bailey
Vive la resistance!
Landon Jackson
>posting le cancer man
Jaxson Barnes
Happened with MS before, they will get their ass kicked again in EU court and have to change their shit again, nothing new.
Chase Peterson
>to enable users to make their choice freely, having been properly informed of their rights Users already read and agreed with EULA so what is the problem? Botnet is comfy.
Landon Gomez
A lot of computer illiterate people suddenly got their windows 7/8 installation automatically upgraded to windows 10.
I don't remember how the upgrade process went, but I'm pretty plenty of people were just clicking wherever to get to the desktop, only to find they've been automatically put on the botnet
Jack Ross
>>If Microsoft does not comply within the three-month window, the CNIL says it may appoint an investigator who could recommend sanctions against the company.
Woah. They may have someone recommend sanctions after 3 months if Microsoft ignores them, which they likely will. Getting the fangs out over here.
Isaiah Cooper
They do this and yet not with Google
Ayden Bailey
>the CNIL says it may appoint an investigator who could recommend sanctions against the company I bet they're shaking in their boots. Jk. France is a shit hole for software, and economic development in general.
Brody Phillips
>the le france le sucks meme
I bet you can't wait to finally be allowed into PG13 movies. NUKE FRANCE LOL XDDDDDD SURRENDERFROGS
Isaiah Nguyen
France is just mad that Micropenis won't base their data center in the EU, so they get to sift through the data.
Asher Long
Says the typical dump mid fat american. Get on my cultural level amerifat.
Aiden Allen
Reminds me of Windows NT 4.0. France government didn't like that account passwords were encrypted. So we got our very own version that had passwords stored in plain text on the hard drive.
Joshua Nelson
t. Sancho Panza
Thomas Fisher
Fuck off muhamMAD
Jason White
Get raped and then blow up by Muslims you stupid denial Frog
Cooper Scott
They do this and yet they allow Muslims in, people who do nothing but to rape and explode.
France is a shit hole
Cooper Wood
every first world country has a certain inflow of muslim immigration you dumb fat piss bucket
John Martin
Yes, also Germany, USA and many others. And they are becoming shit too (or even more shit in the case of USA).
We where talking about France though
Elijah Gray
>the sole reason I'm a social outcast is because let's be honest with ourselves there are a slew of reasons
Luke Peterson
One could expect that after two bloody attacks by Muslims in less than 2 years they would stop all Muslim immigration
But they didn't, because the French people are a bunch of cunts
Gavin Price
>2 Oh user, how innocent you are.
Brayden Smith
I'm surprised why all non-americans aren't banning the spyware OS
Ryan Scott
check em
William Phillips
checked
Liam Hill
Fucking europoors
Benjamin Brown
france is gonna loose, like always and nobody cares about the eu anymore kindly fuck off
Jaxon Nguyen
Nothing will happen. France needs Microsoft more than Microsoft needs France. What's France going to do, outlaw Windows in their country?
Liam Cruz
Eula is not binding on Europe
Jack Nelson
Switch to Linux or osx
Christopher Russell
>France needs Microsoft more than Microsoft needs France linux, like the US government is switching to
>What's France going to do, outlaw Windows in their country? Actually yes, they can ban sales of the product for at least all government uses, if not for all private sectors as well. which then means people will be pirating it and other M$ software more which means less M$ sales
inb4 "hurr government cant ban...." We're talking about France, not the US. no such thing as freedom
James Scott
>let's just switch over our entire government to another OS
Yeah, let me know how that goes.
Caleb Cooper
Chekt w/ respekt
William Cook
lol what a fucking loser just warn the rest on Sup Forums before shooting up a mosque or whatever
Robert Wright
They can ban it for private consumption just as well, Europe is a fascist superstate. If they want something banned it can and will get banned continent wide. Might just be France now, but don't rely on it staying that way.
Cooper Evans
Not just government, private industry to. Corporations love throwing away stable, proprietary software they've been using for decades and switching over to entirely new, inevitably buggy solutions that put their entire business at risk ;)
Luke Smith
>france >still thinking it runs the EU
The fourth reich is upon us and nobody is listening to what pierre has to say, only hans.
James Fisher
>m-muh freedumbz holy fuck the meme is real
Noah Anderson
>let's allow unlimited numbers of Muslim rapists >OH WINDOWS IS BAD
Why are Yurocucks so pathetic
Andrew Taylor
>big corporations are invincible
Nah, MS already got slapped more than once, they'll comply.
Parker Gonzalez
...
Jack Brooks
fluoride
Ryder Edwards
It was done somewhere in Germany. Twice.
Jayden Anderson
Every French person I've met, even turbo normies, are even more obsessed with avoiding the botnet than most people on /k/.
I'm not surprised.
Ian King
they make more than some small nations... they may get their shit slapped today but tomorrow is another story
Austin Kelly
Munich switching over was quite an interesting case not only was it a political move MS sent out some of their head honchos to convince them to switch back.
Cooper Flores
OH KUFIR they cry. OH KUFIR YOU MUSNT INSULT THE MEMBERS OF ISLAM
Juan Sanchez
Dumb shit weeb tripcuck fuck off.
Alexander Bell
Germany is a paper government. We're not talking simply switching e-mail clients in France.
David Davis
Every French person I've met, even turbo normies, are even more obsessed with avoiding the botnet than most people on Sup Forums.
I'm not surprised.
Brayden Nguyen
yeah most frenchies are inherently libertarian
Christopher Ortiz
But google is "don't be evil" xD
Robert Miller
Not using that shit nigga. Also checked, nice dubs you got my man