Dutch regulator sees potential privacy breach in Microsoft Windows

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Dutch regulator sees potential privacy breach in Microsoft Windows

For remotely collecting data from users of Windows Home and Windows Pro.

Microsoft is remotely collecting data from users of Windows Home and Windows Pro, in a potential breach of privacy rules, the Dutch Data Protection Agency (DPA) said on Tuesday. The DPA said it had found the practices while it was testing privacy protection changes in Windows made last year by ...

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