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Microsoft: Of Course We Spy On Our Web Users. But Not As Much As The Other Guys
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| Microsoft says it began collecting data outside its own Web sites in 2006,
| when it launched a third-party ad network, and that activity accelerated
| after the acquisition of aQuantive in 2007. In its defense, Microsoft says
| it started offering an "opt-out" option on all pages on which it serves ads
| starting in the Spring. But it says a mere 1,800 users had taken advantage of
| it. (Our challenge for SAI readers: Please show us where where the "opt-out"
| option is on these pages. We'd love a screenshot.)
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http://www.alleyinsider.com/2008/8/microsoft-of-course-we-spy-on-our-web-users-but-not-as-much-as-the-other-guys
Microsoft Responds To Congress: Hey, We Could Be Worse!
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| Microsoft's response to a House inquiry about ad-targeting policies is pretty
| simple: We're not so bad, and the other guys are even worse.
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http://blog.wired.com/business/2008/08/microsoft.html
Microsoft tracks people with RFID tags
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| Breeze Consulting is creating one of the largest non-traditional RFID
| networks assembled in Australia to track certain people movements at
| Microsoft Tech Ed in Sydney.
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http://www.crn.com.au/News/82862,microsoft-tracks-people-with-rfid-tags.aspx
Related:
Mother of all spyware...
http://news.softpedia.com/news/Forget-about-the-WGA-20-Windows-Vista-Features-and-Services-Harvest-User-Data-for-Microsoft-58752.shtml
Police eats your CPU cycles and disk space...
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| Vista—Microsoft’s latest operating system—may prove to be most
| appropriately named, especially for those seeking evidence of how a
| computer was used.
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http://www.abanet.org/journal/ereport/jy13tkjasn.html
Will Microsoft Put The Colonel in the Kernel?
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| "The kernel meets The Colonel in a just-published Microsoft patent
| application for an Advertising Services Architecture, which delivers targeted
| advertising as 'part of the OS.'
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http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/07/14/043200
Microsoft patents the mother of all adware systems
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| The adware framework would leave almost no data untouched in its quest to
| sell you stuff. It would inspect "user document files, user e-mail files,
| user music files, downloaded podcasts, computer settings, computer status
| messages (e.g., a low memory status or low printer ink)," and more. How could
| we have been so blind as to not see the marketing value in computer status
| messages?
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http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20070717-microsoft-patents-the-mother-of-all-adware-systems.html
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