Windows 10: New Privacy Issues Emerge

Alongside Google, WhatsApp and Facebook, Microsoft is the other company that seems to have a special talent that always gets the Redmont giant in trouble and yields all kinds of criticism. In fact, one of the most powerful and valuable companies in the world became a punch bag lately thanks to its latest (and theoretically last) OS, Windows 10 and its infamous forced updates. Speaking of updates, the next one, the so-called Creators Update, is due in April 2017, bringing new privacy features, something that the community has been long waiting for. Although every new privacy update deserves praise, the new Windows 10 features are still considered to be far from enough, especially by data-protection authorities of the European Union. The EU argues that users are still left in the dark when it comes to the personal data that is processed by Microsoft and for what purpose that information is then used.

Despite the above mentioned new privacy tools, which were enough to make a Swiss data protection regulator group ditch its lawsuit against the company, Windows 10 users are still not safe. In fact, until there’s enough proof that your computer is not spying you at all, you have to take precautions in order to reclaim as much privacy as possible.