Microsoft products are truly an endless surveillance of nightmare. The data collected is unacceptable and will be used against you. Best scenario to target ads and train ai; worst scenario to handle you over to the government (any that Microsoft has an legal entity at).

Some context conveniently left out of here, the Reddit post, and the Twitter cross-post:

> Scattered Spider has been involved in hacks resulting in more than $100m (£75m) in ransom payments, according to the DoJ.

> The charges come after two young men pleaded guilty to offences connected to the £39m 2024 Transport for London cyber-attack, which the UK National Crime Agency (NCA) believed was conducted by the group.

> Investigators from the NCA said they believed the 2024 "network intrusion" - in which around 10 million people's data was stolen - was carried out by Scattered Spider.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cwy0we4yw1lo

deleted my moderator. anyone got a backup?

this is the kind of thing that makes we finally sit down and actually look at what's leaving my machine instead of assuming it's fine. been doing some recon work on my own stuff lately and it's wild how much you find just by actually checking instead of taking a vendor's privacy claims at face value. genuinely curious what "full browsing and gaming history" means in practice here — like is this URL-level, or just aggregate app usage categorized as "browsing"? big difference between those two for how bad this actually is.