__/ [ B Gruff ] on Thursday 08 March 2007 21:41 \__
> It all seems quite harmless to me - I mean, if you've nothing to hide,
> you've nothing to fear, right? Right, commie???:-
>
> http://www.heise-security.co.uk/news/86429
>
> "In the Privacy Statement of Windows Update Microsoft grants itself fairly
> far-reaching rights. Thus the information collected by the Redmond-based
> behemoth includes the computer make and model, version information for the
> operating system, browser, and any other Microsoft software for which
> updates might be available, Plug&Play ID numbers of hardware devices,
> region and language setting, Globally Unique Identifier (GUID), Product ID
> and Product Key, BIOS name, revision number, and revision date. By way of
> justifying Microsoft's approach, alexkoc writes that the EULA, likewise
> presented by the WGA installer, also covered the relaying of such
> information"
NannySoft, not MicroSoft.
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