Microsoft faces Dutch crunch over Windows 10 private data slurp

Microsoft faces Dutch crunch over Windows 10 private data slurp

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https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/10/14/microsoft_faces_dutch_crunch_over_windows_10_data_slurp/

Yet another European nation is turning up the heat on Microsoft for extracting heaps and heaps of telemetry and other intelligence from Windows 10 PCs.

This time, it's privacy authorities in the Netherlands who are calling out Redmond for its hog-wild harvesting of data from machines that run Windows 10 Home and Pro. The Dutch Data Protection Authority (DPA) said on Friday it will impose sanctions on Microsoft should the American tech giant fail to make changes to its software.