France is n’t into Microsoft collecting user data point without its consent . The CNIL , France ’s National Commission on Informatics and Liberty , release a schematic notice telling the company it has three calendar month to cut it out . If Microsoft fails to comply , the CNIL will release a authorisation against the company .
CNILinvestigatedWindows 10 between April and June 2016 after reading media reports that said Microsoft was collecting an extravagant amount of exploiter data . Here ’s what they found :
The company is collecting data point on “ Windows app and Windows Store usage data point . ” It ’s also monitoring what apps its users download and how much sentence they expend on each one , which the CNIL considers to be irrelevant and exuberant data collection .
There is no point of accumulation on how many times you’re able to incorrectly infix your four - digit rowlock to get at your Microsoft account , which indicates that “ user datum is not secure or confidential . ”
“ An advertising ID is activated by default when Windows 10 is installed , enabling Windows apps and other parties ’ apps to supervise user browsing and to offer targeted advert without obtaining user ’ consent . ”
Windows 10 gives you no pick to block biscuit .
“ The company is reassign its account bearer ’ personal information to the United States on a ‘ safe harbour ’ basis . ”
essentially , the CNIL wants Microsoft to give their ten million Gallic client a pick about whether their data is being collected .
Here is Microsoft ’s instruction , viaVentureBeat :
“ sooner today Microsoft received a notice from the Gallic data protection authority , the Commission Nationale de l’Informatique et des Libertés or CNIL , bring up care about sealed aspects of Windows 10 . The notice give Microsoft three months to address the issues .
We build hard privacy protections into Windows 10 , and we receive feedback as we continually work to enhance those protections . We will work closely with the CNIL over the next few months to translate the agency ’s concerns fully and to work toward solution that it will discover satisfactory .
The CNIL noted that the Safe Harbor framework is no longer valid for transferring information from European Union to the United States . We fully realize the importance of lay down a healthy effectual framework for trans - Atlantic data transferral , and that is why Microsoft has been very supportive of the efforts on both side of the Atlantic that result to last week ’s espousal of the Privacy Shield .
As the European Commission observed , Microsoft ’s January 2016 Privacy Statement states that the company adhere to the principles of the Safe Harbor Framework . Microsoft has in fact continue to live up to all of its commitments under the Safe Harbor Framework , even as the European and U.S. representatives worked toward the new Privacy Shield . As we put forward in our privacy statement , in addition to the Safe Harbor Framework we trust on a variety of sound mechanisms as the basis for transferring data from Europe , including standard contractual clauses , a data transfer mechanism establish by the European Commission and approve by European data protective covering authorities , to cover data menstruation from the European Union to the United States .
Microsoft will release an updated privateness argument next month , and that will say Microsoft intends to adopt the Privacy Shield . We are work now toward meet the requirements of the Privacy Shield . ”
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