Brian Honan writes about an issue raised by a Daily Mail story about how a senior with dementia was scammed out of his money after his details were sold or passed along by charities: I know many people who would argue that there shouldn’t be a need for charities, saying the search for a cure for cancer,…
Month: September 2015
Microsoft backports data slurp to Windows 7 and 8 via patches
Andrew Orlowski reports: We recently mused, half seriously, whether the entire point of the Windows 10 upgrade was to harvest your personal information. With Microsoft suffering from a serious case of Google envy, perhaps it felt it had some catching up to do. Now Microsoft is revamping the user-tracking tools in Windows 7 and 8 to harvest more…