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Story: Planning the future of privacy at Microsoft
Posted by: Oldator (Tuesday 4 July 2006, 10:36 AM)
"We didn't spend the same amount of time on the notification side of it, which really transmits no information about the user back to Microsoft."
No one knows what info M$ collected on the daily call backs to their servers, nor what they did with the information. They may have collected your browser cache to see where you had been. The WGA is pure spyware and doesn't do much to add trust in M$.
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