Windows 'notifications' accesses my photos
Windows did an update, and now I received a 'notification' (the one that shows up in the lower right corner) which proceeds to play (display that cycles through my photos) a bunch of my photos from my...
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T18skyguy wrote:
...I think it still exists, not sure. OK, back to photo's. They access them whether you like it or not. It's a law enforcement method to bust child abuser's. They look at everything. I went to save my tax return, and they sent me a message instantly "Don't you want to encrypt that"? They know more about whats on our computers than we do. Same with music. I was deciding between Onedrive, or Google music, they sent me a message instantly that stated "We already have your music" In other words, why not stay with us?
I guess I shouldn't be surprised, but it sure is discouraging. I found that the photo's it was displaying were the most recent ones that I had moved a couple days ago from dropbox to my local hd. It's easiest to use our dropbox files from within File Explorer where dropbox shows up as just another drive. Both of our phones save pictures directly to dropbox. It wouldn't surprise me if MS has access to our dropbox files as well via file explorer.
