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Windows Genuine Disadvantage
Mark Rasch, 2006-07-05

A recent lawsuit filed against Microsoft should have all companies reexamining their privacy policies to determine what information they are actually collecting about customers, and what they can possibly do with it.

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Re: Windows genuine disadvantage 2006-07-07
Anonymous
"Knowing what I have read in this article I will likely probe my sniffer records to see if it holds true that they track IP addresses and such."

Your IP address is contained in the packets used by WGA to transmit your ID info to MS. My guess is that MS probably captures and stores your IP addres...

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