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EULA Scares: Real or Imagined? | |
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| Time: 13:49 EST/18:49 GMT | News Source: WinInformant | Posted By: Byron Hinson | ||
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Lately, a number of readers have forwarded me Microsoft End User Licensing Agreements (EULAs) for a variety of recent products and updates, wondering whether language in these documents gives the software giant the right to examine their PCs and gather personal data. The situation has been exacerbated by sensational news reports, which quote sections of text from the EULAs, as if Microsoft might include some silver bullet that would prove, once and for all, that all its talk about protecting user privacy was just hogwash. After all, a reader noted just this morning, doesn't this prove that Microsoft is simply continuing the behavior that got it into antitrust trouble? | ||
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| #1 By 2062 (68.128.200.202) at 8/7/2002 1:56:25 PM |
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46 million people have bought windows xp, but some people think that microsoft has nothing better to do than spy on THEM. Like out of the 46 millino people, microsoft would secretly break into there pc and watch them lol. It's just so silly, people need to understand microsoft is a company that exists to just make money. Microsoft is not gonna spy on people for no reason, unless you work for sun or aol (jk).
-gosh |
| #2 By 6859 (204.71.100.215) at 8/7/2002 3:32:36 PM |
| It's an imagined conspiracy. MS' language simply allows them to see what updates you might require, allowing them to skip the permission check. |
| #3 By 135 (209.180.28.6) at 8/7/2002 4:18:44 PM |
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Paul is right... Also in the case of the SP3 EULA the wording is quite specific... it says "download", it does not say "install".
I'm also worried because I haven't been getting Wininformant emails this week. I wonder why that might be. I probably should subscribe with my home address instead of work. The damn work system has anti-viral stuff that drops messages into the bit bucket occasionally. Oh, and I'm getting javascript errors from activewin pages. Something about awin undefined in line 29. :) |
| #4 By 2960 (156.80.64.113) at 8/8/2002 8:48:21 AM |
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Mooz,
I think it's because it's only been recently that Microsoft has been sneaking in little privacy-invading clauses. EULA's used to be used to protect the software license. Now they are using them as "Yeah, it was kind of hidden, but we DID tell them about it" CYA manuevers. TL |
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