Privacy
The latest Privacy coverage — news, analysis, and updates from the WindowsNews.AI desk.
Windows 10 ESU: Microsoft Account Now Mandatory for Security Patches After 2025
The clock is ticking for the estimated hundreds of millions of PCs still running Windows 10. Microsoft has now confirmed a bitter pill for the privacy-conscious: if you want to keep receiving...
Windows 11 'Action Advised' Alert Deceives Users Into OneDrive Subscriptions
Microsoft has planted a new notification in the Windows 11 Start menu that looks like a urgent system warning but is actually a thinly veiled advertisement for OneDrive cloud subscriptions. The...
Engineer Storms Microsoft 50th Bash to Protest Azure's Role in Palestinian Mass Surveillance
A Microsoft software engineer disrupted the company’s 50th anniversary Copilot event in April 2025, storming the stage to denounce what she called the tech giant’s complicity in mass surveillance...
Leaked Docs: Israel Stored Millions of Palestinian Calls on Microsoft Azure
Millions of phone calls made by Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank have been systematically intercepted, processed, and stored on Microsoft’s Azure cloud platform, according to a joint...
Microsoft Fixes One Windows 11 Nag, Introduces a Harder-to-Ignore OneDrive Prompt in Start Menu
Windows 11 testers are confronting a classic good-news-bad-news scenario. In the latest Dev channel build 26200.5722, Microsoft has finally streamlined the persistent “second-chance out-of-box...
Synology DS925+ Hands-On: Why This Privacy-Centric NAS Outshines Cloud Storage
The Synology DiskStation DS925+ lands at a moment when households are drowning in data and wary of cloud subscriptions. This compact 5‑bay NAS promises to replace a patchwork of USB drives and...
Microsoft Rolls Out Free Local GPT Model for Windows 11: gpt-oss-20b Explained
A quiet August rollout is reshaping what Windows 11 can do with artificial intelligence—and it’s happening entirely on your own hardware. Microsoft has begun distributing gpt-oss-20b, OpenAI’s...
Nearly 2 Million Hours of Palestinian Calls Stored on Microsoft’s Irish Servers for Israeli Intelligence
Microsoft’s Azure cloud infrastructure in Ireland stored nearly 2 million hours of intercepted Palestinian phone calls for Israel’s elite military intelligence unit, an investigation by The...
Leaked Documents Claim Microsoft Azure Hosts Israeli Mass Surveillance Targeting Palestinians
Microsoft’s cloud platform Azure has been implicated in one of the most sweeping mass surveillance operations in modern history, according to a joint investigation by The Guardian and +972 Magazine...
13 Petabytes of Israeli Surveillance Data on Palestinians Stored by Microsoft Azure, UN Report Says
More than 13 petabytes of Israeli military surveillance data on Palestinians—including biometric records, intercepted communications, and AI-generated targeting lists—sits on Microsoft Azure...
Satya Nadella’s 2021 Meeting with Unit 8200 Head Enabled Azure-Powered Mass Surveillance in Gaza, Investigation Shows
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella personally met with the head of Israel’s elite cyber-intelligence unit in 2021 to greenlight a cloud-powered mass surveillance system that now captures and stores...
Microsoft Azure Stored 200 Million Hours of Palestinian Calls for Israel's Unit 8200
Microsoft’s Azure cloud platform stored approximately 11,500 terabytes of data for Israel’s secretive Unit 8200—the equivalent of 200 million hours of phone calls—mostly from Palestinians in...