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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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"Google has worked with Facebook and Microsoft to discourage them from increasing user privacy, lamenting occasions where they prioritized their reputation over their collective business interest" (storage.courtlistener.com)

submitted 3 years ago by yogthos@lemmy.ml to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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[–] MarcellusDrum@lemmy.ml 3 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago) (1 children)

While collecting personalized user data is obviously important to all of these companies, is it really a vital "feature" for Microsoft? Google and Facebook are mainly ad companies, so the use case is obvious, but what about Microsoft?

Note: I'm not talking about telemetry. While I have objections over that, I understand whg they are used.

[–] yogthos@lemmy.ml 4 points 3 years ago

All large companies realize that user data has value whether it's their primary asset or not. User data is a big source of revenue that all of these companies are well positioned to exploit.