If cortana wants to automatically recommend appointments from emails? Guess what? She has to read your emails.
If you want to be blocked from downloading malware? Guess what? You have to check with a central db first.
etc
Apple, Google devices etc have had this stuff on for ages.
I am sure the technologists at both Google and Microsoft has the best of intentions with their creations, the question is what happens when a TLA or similar comes knocking.
Or it could download the db and do the checks locally. There wouldn't be privacy concerns about MS knowing which sites one's browsing.
[0] https://developers.google.com/safe-browsing/developers_guide...
Which is - as far as I know - is very different from how Windows anti-malware system works. At least I think I saw a network requests from Windows 8 machine when "untrusted" applications (.exe) were started.
"She"
Shall we turn siri off by default?
"Malware databases can exist locally" - You still have to download, and upload definitions. This is what windows defender does. People still complain about that.
It's not that I'm not concerned about privacy. It's the hypocritical nature of people. It only becomes a big issue when Microsoft does it. Anyone else, very little complaints.
In one case, you download the whole database.
In the other case, you essentially tell the company "hey, I’m visiting website with hash 12345, is that bad?".
This can be abused. Google could with it create a database of everyone who visit, say, pornhub.com, for example, by logging everyone who visits a page with the same hash as pornhub.com
Same with file-based malware databases:
You tell it "I have the file with hash 12345, is it bad?" And, if Google - or the NSA, CIA, FBI, whatever – want to get a list of everyone who has that file, they just ask the database provider to log everyone who checks that hash against the database, then go to the ISP to get the real name of the owner of that IP, and then SWAT the person.
This is very much a possible risk.
When I want to interact with the internet, I use a browser. This browser is managed by many extensions that cut down on the information that is being sent about me. I do not want my operating system to talk to the internet without asking me.
cough, she = it, read = process