According to this article from ZDNet, the next version of Windows will include their own spyware. It seems the new version of the Watson error reporting tool will collect much more information than it currently does.
For example, when your systems crashes, while using Outlook to email that new job prospect you haven't told your boss about, the contents of said email would go not only to Redmond, but possibly also your boss. Or when that replay of Sunday's amazing putt by golfer Tiger Woods crashes MediaPlayer 10, the URL would make its way to your IT administrator.
But, you say, you shouldn't be doing such things anyway. Yes, you are right. You shouldn't. And only bad guys should fear the black helicopters, or the FBI breaking down your door in the middle of night, or the police beating you to a pulp because you are a minority. None of those abuses of power would occur. Right? This is all for our own good. Right?
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