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<title>Spyware Watchdog</title>
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<h1>Bing</h1>
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<p><a href="/articles">Back to catalog</a></p>
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<img src="/images/bing_logo.png" alt="Bing logo">
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Bing is a search engine created and owned by Microsoft.
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<h2>Spyware Level: <font color=red>EXTREMELY HIGH</font></h2>
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Bing is yet another spyware search engine that collects your information and sells it to advertisers. It's strongly recommended that you
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do not use Bing.
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<p>
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At some point Bing had a privacy policy, but Microsoft doesnt seem to be hosting it anymore. So, this article will look at the
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Microsoft Privacy Statement<sup><a href="#1">[1]</a></sup> to help us understand what information Bing collects.
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Similarly to the privacy policies of Google and Apple, the Microsoft privacy statement eclipses the entire spyware platform and does not help you understand
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in great detail what kind of information one single program could be collecting. (although this policy is more specific)
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<h3>Bing collects your search history</h3>
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<p>From the Microsoft Privacy Statement<sup><a href="#1">[1]</a></sup>:</p>
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<p><i>
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"Microsoft collects data from you, through our interactions with you and through our products for a variety of purposes described
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below...You provide some of this data directly, such as when you...submit a search query to Bing"
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</i></p>
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<p>Later in the Interactions -> Device and usage data section of this statement, it is clarified again that Microsoft collects your:
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<i>"Browse History. Data about the web pages you visit."</i>, as well as your: <i>"Images. Images and related information, such as
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picture metadata. For example, we collect the image you provide when you use a Bing image-enabled service."</i></p>
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<p>Microsoft claims to store this information for an unlimited amount of time, but it claims that it will eventually anonymize this information
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in a process that takes 18 months to complete.<p>
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"Has Microsoft adopted and announced a specific retention period for a certain data type? For example, for Bing search queries, we de-identify
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stored queries by removing the entirety of the IP address after 6 months, and cookie IDs and other cross-session identifiers after 18 months. "
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</i></p>
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<h3>Bing uses your search history to profile you for advertising</h3>
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<p>From the Microsoft Privacy Statement<sup><a href="#1">[1]</a></sup>:</p>
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"Microsoft may use data we collect to select and deliver some of the ads you see on Microsoft web properties, such as Microsoft.com, MSN and Bing."
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</i></p>
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So since your search history is part of the "data we collect", the natrual conclusion is that, your search queiries are being used to profile you for
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advertising. And of course, this is confirmed in this section:
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<p><i>
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"The ads that you see may be selected based on data we process about you, such as your interests and favorites, your location, your transactions, how
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you use our products,<b><font color=red> your search queries </font></b>, or the content you view. For example, if you view content on MSN about automobiles, we may show advertisements
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about cars; if you search “pizza places in Seattle” on Bing, you may see advertisements in your search results for restaurants in Seattle."
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</i></p>
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<h3>Bing sells your search history to other spyware platforms</h3>
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<p>From the Microsoft Privacy Statement<sup><a href="#1">[1]</a></sup>:</p>
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<p><i>
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"We may share data we collect with third parties, such as Oath, AppNexus, or Facebook (see below), so that the ads you see in our products,
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their products, or other sites and apps serviced by these partners are more relevant and valuable to you. "
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</i></p>
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<hr>
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<h2>Sources</h2>
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<a name="1">1.</a>
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<a href="https://privacy.microsoft.com/en-us/privacystatement">Microsoft Privacy Statement</a>
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<a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20180528165116/https://privacy.microsoft.com/en-us/privacystatement">[web.archive.org]</a>
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<a href="https://archive.li/u7eZJ">[archive.li]</a><br>
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<hr>
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<p><b>
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This article was last edited on 5/30/2018
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</b></p>
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If you want to edit this article, or contribute your own article(s), email me at <a href="mailto:spyware@aaathats3as.com">spyware@aaathats3as.com</a>. All contributions must be liscenced under the CC0 liscence to be accepted.
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