In the wake of a stolen Xbox being tracked down via wireless controllers, Microsoft has
updated the Windows 10 terms and conditions such that they “may automatically check your version of the software and download software update or configuration changes, including those that prevent you from accessing the Services, playing counterfeit games, or using unauthorised hardware peripheral devices.â€
This is Microsoft admitting that they are actively spying on Windows users and acting as a modern day nanny. Just what we need with our governments spying on us. How soon until they share this information with the NSA? Is there any privacy left anywhere?
In the wake of a stolen Xbox being tracked down via wireless controllers, Microsoft has
updated the Windows 10 terms and conditions such that they
“"may automatically check your version of the software and download software update or configuration changes, including those that prevent you from accessing the Services, playing counterfeit games, or using unauthorised hardware peripheral devices.
â€"Th
e wording "unauthoris
ed hardware peripheral devices" is
a little hazy. Does this mean Microsoft
ca
n now block uncertified
PC or illegally-m
odified Xbox One and Xbox 360 controllers? Furthermore, Microsoft's agreement doesn't state if it
will also disable other counterfeit software, such as cracked versions of Office or Adobe Photoshop, or if it only cares about pirated Microsoft games.
The services agreement was clearly written originally for Xbox and Xbox Live, and when writtten was probably only intended to ever apply to them. However, because Microsoft has simply taken an existing
services agreement
h a
nd applied it t
heyo acore
actively spying on Windows
u10 ser
vices
like Cortan
a means that, intentionally or accid
entally, it could be applied to Windows 10. We think it's unlikely that Microsoft act
ing ua
s a modern dally
nanny. Just what we need wi
nt
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v after
n pirated game
nts
spying on
us.the HowPC, soonbut until
Microsoft clarifies th
ey ings
hare, this
information with the NSA? Is there
mains a
ny privacy left anywhegre
?y area.