Microsoft and your data

YouTube Channel Britec09 has a video up this week that discusses how much of your data to which Microsoft has access on a Windows computer.

Some of the Microsoft policy is understandable, as they won't to be held blameless if someone uses your data in a way you don't like. For example, if you share your data with a third party by way of a Microsoft service, and the third party uses the data in a way you don't approve, Microsoft isn't repsonsible.

While that is reasonable, there are lots of other bits of Microsoft's privacy policy that you might not like.

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So, what do you do? As the video said, if you don't want Microsoft to have access to all of your data on your computer, don't use a Windows computer.

Personally, I rarely use a Windows computer. I switched to Mac in 2007. More recently, I moved to Linux. At work, I've had to use Windows computers, but at home, I don't have to. And I don't.

My Linux laptop works great. I have some family members that use Chromebooks. That's another topic for another day. My Streaming Life does use Google devices. The privacy isn't great, but it's on par with others. The security of pretty good as well.