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Thursday, March 7th, 2019 (No comments yet)
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Microsoft has now admitted that their software validation tool will check in with Microsoft servers even if you tell it not to.

But if you cancel the installation of WGA, maybe because you dislike the privacy implications, the software will still phone home. Microsoft stresses that WGA does not take any information which could identify you as an individual, but is only used to collate statistics on WGA use.

Who cares if it can't personally identify you (if that is indeed true)? The point is that you are not in control of your own software. For those non-technical among us who have always wondered by geeks hate Microsoft, it's because of stuff like this.

(Update:) ArsTechnica expands on this saying that this behavior is typical of ANY software distributed through Windows Update.

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