Data Norms

Reference original post: http://bgr.com/2015/07/31/windows-10-upgrade-spying-how-to-opt-out/

Reference TRob comment:

Wow.  Here's an excerpt from Microsoft's 12k word Privacy Policy.  NOTHING on a Windows 10 PC is private. Nothing.  Zero. Zip. Zilch. Nada.

Finally, we will access, disclose and preserve personal data, including your content (such as the content of your emails, other private communications or files in private folders), when we have a good faith belief that doing so is necessary to:

1.     comply with applicable law or respond to valid legal process, including from law enforcement or other government agencies;

2.     protect our customers, for example to prevent spam or attempts to defraud users of the services, or to help prevent the loss of life or serious injury of anyone;

3.     operate and maintain the security of our services, including to prevent or stop an attack on our computer systems or networks; or

4.     protect the rights or property of Microsoft, including enforcing the terms governing the use of the services - however, if we receive information indicating that someone is using our services to traffic in stolen intellectual or physical property of Microsoft, we will not inspect a customer's private content ourselves, but we may refer the matter to law enforcement.

Impressive document.

All of the employees/contractors constructing the logic in these documents live and work on the same modern plantation. Our methods are affected by this context. Permissible behaviors are constructed and allowed to persist because of the systemic design we are all trained to acquiesce silently to. Education does not even touch this... it is literally not on the radar.

Personal #SovereignSourceAuthority is not a marketing pitch... it is litmus paper. You dont request it... it is inalienable, unless you dismiss it. Virtually everyone is being led to dismiss it.

If the design of your participation denies you personal integrity at the data administration layer of Society, no patch will fix that. No company has an incentive to change that. No W2-managed government has an incentive to fix that. We can pretend that "Freedom" is a provisioned outcome generated by post-administration processes, because history says so...but history is dead wrong.. and the future will pay a price for this error until a systemic redesign occurs.

If you have to register within a system in order to be construed as a Rights-bearing entity, and your personal authority is not self-provisioned using the USA model of Sovereignty originally stood up by it's founders, then you are living under an illusion without integrity as a data model held together by human band-aids.

Good people are making real mistakes.

Nations are being redesigned in front of our eyes by data structure and intent.

And who can blame talented engineers for empowering this... all we want to do is build cool stuff, right?

That socio-economic civic/political BS isn't important... heck, have you heard...Facebook is the largest contributor of open source software in the world... we should be celebrating FB engineers!

Yes, that is sarcasm.

Consider saying "enough is enough". Just say it to people... at the bank, at parties, in the car, on the subway, in your office, at the soccer game, at DMV...everywhere. If you feel like it.

Or don't.

Dismissing freedom is freedumb after all... a very real possibility, but never the best option.

We are all witnesses now.

Own Yourself.