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Microsoft admits Windows 11 has a GDID tracker with no off switch, first documented publicly in an FBI hacker complaint (www.windowslatest.com)
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[–] Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 14 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

It makes it easier for Microsoft to know where to push that very special Windows Update that installs whatever the NSA wants installed in the computer of some journalist, foreign politician, syndicalist, high level manager on a foreign company that competes with an American company and other such "extremists".