[igneo676]

I'm reminded of a rather unpopular statement made by Mark Shuttleworth

> Don’t trust us? Erm, we have root. You do trust us with your data already. You trust us not to screw up on your machine with every update

By using Windows, you're impicitly trusting Microsoft and every update they make and that it won't screw things up. If you've somehow stuck around past the integrated ads, screwy install process that forces you to have an online account, and the thousands of other papercuts then you shouldn't be surprised to find some other user hostile move has taken place.

Good luck with that I guess

[ptx]

I imagine the statement is unpopular because it's deceptive and conflates different kinds of trust. If we (data subjects under the GDPR) voluntarily consent to have our data processed by them (the data controller), then we trust that they will process our data in a responsible way. But when we trust them with root, we trust that they will not take our data to begin with, because doing so would be unethical, unacceptable and (without proper consent and basis for processing) illegal.

That said, I agree that Microsoft can't really be trusted with anything.