> I have a friend who knows someone at Microsoft involved in this - his
> comment (the friend of a friend) basically was "we disclose pretty much
> exactly what we do in the privacy policy - so I'm not sure what the
> problem is.  How do you provide services like the ones in Cortana
> *without* gathering private information, and how do you disclose that
> without it sounding Orwellian?"  While I'm not a fan of Microsoft, he's
> got a point.  Google and Amazon also do the same thing, but there's no
> significant outcry over what they're doing (though arguably, there is
> some, particularly in Linux communities).

That's probably good enough justification for MS that the risk is low. 
Most people use Apple and Google mobile products that harvest plenty of 
data, it would be strange if all those people rejected Windows doing the 
same.

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