Microsoft and You
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Hans Dietrich wrote:
Tipped off by my friend, I went to my Windows Live login page, and was shocked by what I saw
What page exactly? The one you see before you log in? I don't see anything there.
Log in, go to your Windows Live Home Page and click on Profile.
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Log in, go to your Windows Live Home Page and click on Profile.
Henry Minute Do not read medical books! You could die of a misprint. - Mark Twain Girl: (staring) "Why do you need an icy cucumber?" “I want to report a fraud. The government is lying to us all.”
Henry Minute wrote:
Log in, go to your Windows Live Home Page and click on Profile.
All I see is some information on how to set your privacy options. The original post led me to believe that somehow my personal info was made visible to public.
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Henry Minute wrote:
Log in, go to your Windows Live Home Page and click on Profile.
All I see is some information on how to set your privacy options. The original post led me to believe that somehow my personal info was made visible to public.
If you go to each of the options on the privacy page, you might find that 'everyone' has more access than you might like. I found it so. It is a bit of a PITA having to go to each rather than having a single point to make a universal setting, still better that than nothing.
Henry Minute Do not read medical books! You could die of a misprint. - Mark Twain Girl: (staring) "Why do you need an icy cucumber?" “I want to report a fraud. The government is lying to us all.”
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Tipped off by my friend, I went to my Windows Live login page, and was shocked by what I saw. I have no idea where Microsoft got all that info that was displayed - stuff I had forgotten about, actually. Apparently Microsoft has decided to mine the personal data of Windows Live members to further its social networking ambitions. I quickly clicked on Profile, and spent the next few minutes opting out of their data mining schemes (there are lots of them, and you have to click each one separately - there's no Exclude me out button). I am still in shock about this. If it was Facebook, then you would know up front that what you put on your page would be visible. What Microsoft did was violate members' trust by displaying personal details that was data mined from their use of Windows Live logins and emails. Even if this was legal, it's still an outrageous breach of privacy.
Best wishes, Hans
Not sure what you are complaining about. I logged in and there is nothing other than my user name. It is empty cause I never filled anything in. You will get more information on me by doing a simple google search. I am guessing you got drunk one night and put a bunch of stuff on your profile that you are now wishing was not there, so you have having to go hide each thing individually.
ASCII stupid question, get a stupid ANSI
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Not sure what you are complaining about. I logged in and there is nothing other than my user name. It is empty cause I never filled anything in. You will get more information on me by doing a simple google search. I am guessing you got drunk one night and put a bunch of stuff on your profile that you are now wishing was not there, so you have having to go hide each thing individually.
ASCII stupid question, get a stupid ANSI
:laugh: If that were the case, at least I could understand it. However, that's not what I saw. What I saw was a detailed list of people I had exchanged emails with, and in some cases, detailed comments that these people had made - in blogs or forums, I'm not sure which - and even pictures that some of these people had posted somewhere. There were some other details, too. In other words, it was a "Here's who Hans is talking to, and here's who these people are, and what they say"; sort of "This is your life, Hans Dietrich". This all seems to me to be very close to cyber-stalking.
Best wishes, Hans
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Tipped off by my friend, I went to my Windows Live login page, and was shocked by what I saw. I have no idea where Microsoft got all that info that was displayed - stuff I had forgotten about, actually. Apparently Microsoft has decided to mine the personal data of Windows Live members to further its social networking ambitions. I quickly clicked on Profile, and spent the next few minutes opting out of their data mining schemes (there are lots of them, and you have to click each one separately - there's no Exclude me out button). I am still in shock about this. If it was Facebook, then you would know up front that what you put on your page would be visible. What Microsoft did was violate members' trust by displaying personal details that was data mined from their use of Windows Live logins and emails. Even if this was legal, it's still an outrageous breach of privacy.
Best wishes, Hans
After I opted out I got the following message: There's a temporary problem with the service. Please try again. If you continue to get this message, try again later.
Todd Smith
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After I opted out I got the following message: There's a temporary problem with the service. Please try again. If you continue to get this message, try again later.
Todd Smith
Basicly, I haven't filled in my profile either, so there is not much info on me personally. But it's true that all your contacts and their E-mail adresses etc. are there. I guess Microsoft got an offer from some spamcompany that they couldn't resist so now they want to help them get easy lists.... :cool: "nothing exists, everything are opinions"
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Tipped off by my friend, I went to my Windows Live login page, and was shocked by what I saw. I have no idea where Microsoft got all that info that was displayed - stuff I had forgotten about, actually. Apparently Microsoft has decided to mine the personal data of Windows Live members to further its social networking ambitions. I quickly clicked on Profile, and spent the next few minutes opting out of their data mining schemes (there are lots of them, and you have to click each one separately - there's no Exclude me out button). I am still in shock about this. If it was Facebook, then you would know up front that what you put on your page would be visible. What Microsoft did was violate members' trust by displaying personal details that was data mined from their use of Windows Live logins and emails. Even if this was legal, it's still an outrageous breach of privacy.
Best wishes, Hans
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Tipped off by my friend, I went to my Windows Live login page, and was shocked by what I saw. I have no idea where Microsoft got all that info that was displayed - stuff I had forgotten about, actually. Apparently Microsoft has decided to mine the personal data of Windows Live members to further its social networking ambitions. I quickly clicked on Profile, and spent the next few minutes opting out of their data mining schemes (there are lots of them, and you have to click each one separately - there's no Exclude me out button). I am still in shock about this. If it was Facebook, then you would know up front that what you put on your page would be visible. What Microsoft did was violate members' trust by displaying personal details that was data mined from their use of Windows Live logins and emails. Even if this was legal, it's still an outrageous breach of privacy.
Best wishes, Hans
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Tipped off by my friend, I went to my Windows Live login page, and was shocked by what I saw. I have no idea where Microsoft got all that info that was displayed - stuff I had forgotten about, actually. Apparently Microsoft has decided to mine the personal data of Windows Live members to further its social networking ambitions. I quickly clicked on Profile, and spent the next few minutes opting out of their data mining schemes (there are lots of them, and you have to click each one separately - there's no Exclude me out button). I am still in shock about this. If it was Facebook, then you would know up front that what you put on your page would be visible. What Microsoft did was violate members' trust by displaying personal details that was data mined from their use of Windows Live logins and emails. Even if this was legal, it's still an outrageous breach of privacy.
Best wishes, Hans
WHAT? How did Microsoft got me work info?
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Tipped off by my friend, I went to my Windows Live login page, and was shocked by what I saw. I have no idea where Microsoft got all that info that was displayed - stuff I had forgotten about, actually. Apparently Microsoft has decided to mine the personal data of Windows Live members to further its social networking ambitions. I quickly clicked on Profile, and spent the next few minutes opting out of their data mining schemes (there are lots of them, and you have to click each one separately - there's no Exclude me out button). I am still in shock about this. If it was Facebook, then you would know up front that what you put on your page would be visible. What Microsoft did was violate members' trust by displaying personal details that was data mined from their use of Windows Live logins and emails. Even if this was legal, it's still an outrageous breach of privacy.
Best wishes, Hans