Windows 10 sends a weekly “activity update” on children's internet browsing and computer history to parents by default. This feature is embarrassing and dangerous as users have pointed out, allowing parents to know everything about their children surfing habits.
The operating system sends a weekly report of all the websites children have visited, number of how many hours they have spent on the computer and also how long they used their favourite apps according to the reports. This feature appears to be turned on by default for family accounts, without notifying either the children or parents.
Some are frightened that this feature might by chance out younger LGBT individuals, by sending their net searching information to their parents, that would in turn put them at risk of abuse by their parents, or danger, Twitter users have warned. Others are worried that this feature would teach their children from their youngest age that their every motion is being digital watched and they should self censor as appropriate. Parents that warned about this feature have told young people to be cautious, aware that their parents may be spying on their web browsing.
A Boing Boing reader wrote an email to the site stating that “This weekend we upgraded my 14 year old son’s laptop from Windows 8 to Windows 10. Today I got a creepy ass email from Microsoft titled ‘Weekly activity report for (my kid)’, including which websites he visited, how many hours per day he used it, and how many minutes he used each of his favourite apps.”
The reader known as Kirk, said that he couldn’t be sure that the reports were directly related to the upgrade. But they soon began very soon after the upgrade"Ok I admit that the timing might be coincidental but that would be one hell of coincidence. I’ve never seen anything like this until we upgraded to Windows 10, and then I got the spy report the following business day.
A message to our young readers if you have Windows 10 now, your parents would be getting the same type of report I did. Don’t assume your computer has your back.”
The dossiers are just the latest example of worries about invasive spying on Windows 10, which has settings that allows Microsoft to look in on the user’s computers, and which also continues to send the data to Microsoft even when they are turned off.
Source: www.timesofindia
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