A place to discuss privacy and freedom in the digital world.
Privacy has become a very important issue in modern society, with companies and governments constantly abusing their power, more and more people are waking up to the importance of digital privacy.
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- If you have a question, please try searching for previous discussions, maybe it has already been answered
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great. what is the FTCs justification for this? did they ban them doing it outright, or is it just that they didn’t make it clear enough? will this apply to other companies? so many questions.
Don’t give Microsoft ideas for their built-in scanner.
My guy, Windows itself has a fuck load of telemetry. They don’t need to include this in Defender.
MS doesn’t need their antivirus to see everything you are doing.
Thanks to UEFI and other onboard chips, Intel ME, PSP much bigger fish to fry for sure.
I’m pretty sure those as fairly low risk compared to Windows and your web browser
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I’m shocked that the “antimalware software” is actually stealing user data and wasting a bunch of CPU cycles. Who could have ever imagined that?
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The corporation made TENS of millions from lying to customers, stealing their data, then selling it — they were fined $18 million… This is better than nothing, but still complete dogshit.
Would you consider fining a car thief a fraction of the value of the car they stole justice? No! Because that would be a sick fucking joke!
The corporation should be fined 10x the revenue of the crime, and the leadership who signed off on this should be criminally prosecuted, personally fined a percentage of their wealth, and imprisoned.
Corporate criminals should be treated like actual criminals.
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So? That doesn’t absolve any of the former decision makers of their crimes. This is the kind of mentality that both enables and facilitates corporate criminals and corruption.
If you purchase a stolen car you don’t get to keep it if the crime is uncovered or the real owners are found. When you purchase a company you purchase its liabilities. If those liabilities/crimes were not disclosed, then you have a case for rescinding the purchase and prosecuting the former company/owners/investors for additional damages.
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