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Is this spyware? #916

Closed nothingismagick closed 3 years ago

nothingismagick commented 3 years ago

In #907 I began looking into the EULA required of developers / end consumers, and was particularly bothered by the following:

3.    DATA.
a)   Data Collection. The software may collect information about you and your end users’ 
use of the software, and send that to Microsoft. Microsoft may use this information to 
provide services and improve our products and services

This scares me, but what is worse - I as a developer am now an Agent responsible for enforcement and compliance notification, essentially making me the bad guy. If you read section 9, it just gets more wow:

9.    REQUIRED NOTICES TO END USERS.
a)   Required notice to all end users. Per Section 3 (a) above, you must provide notice 
to all users that your software includes software provided by Microsoft and that it may 
collect information about the end user’s use of the software, and send that information 
to Microsoft to provide services as disclosed in Microsoft’s Privacy Statement 
at https://aka.ms/privacy.

I would VERY MUCH like to see example language that suffices from the perspective of MS Legal such that 9a is complied with.