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Originally Posted by gregbradley
yet if someone snapped a photo of you on the street and you objected the police would stop you.
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And if I were the one doing that I would tell the police where they can stick it. There is zero legal basis for someone to expect privacy in public. The front of your house or any activity you conduct in public is completely open to any member of the public to freely record.
Anyway back on the Windows 10 vs Windows 7 issue for all those people going to Windows 7 because of privacy issues you may want to Google the latest news. Apparently Windows 7 has all the same privacy infringements as Windows 10. They were apparently snuck in under the umbrella of "Critical updates" For those of you concerned I would strongly look into and potentially uninstall the following Windows updates: 3035583, 2952664, 2976978, 3021917, 3044374, 2990214, 3022345, 3068708.
Windows 10 has brought the privacy issue to light and there's a lot of researchers looking into several of Microsoft's operating systems at the moment. Also in the news is that disabling some features doesn't actually disable them and only makes them look like they are disabled, i.e. if you disable Cortana and all related search functions, your search query is STILL sent to Microsoft, the results simply won't be displayed.
Things are getting scary. Check out one of the KnowledgeBase entries for one of the above Windows updates:
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/3068708