Microsoft vs Fairphone
Based on our analysis, Fairphone is the more privacy-respecting choice overall.
BACK →| Category | Microsoft | Fairphone |
|---|---|---|
| Overall | C- · 44/100 | B- · 68/100 |
| What they collect | Concern (35) | Mixed (65) |
| Who they share it with | Concern (40) | Mixed (72) |
| What you can do | Mixed (58) | Mixed (63) |
| What they promise | Mixed (52) | Mixed (68) |
Microsoft's privacy statement covers an enormous product surface — Windows, Office, Azure, Bing, Xbox, and Copilot — and the data practices vary dramatically across them. The umbrella policy is deliberately vague, deferring almost all specifics to product-level documentation. Cross-product data combination, AI model training on your content, and employer/school access to your files and communications are the key risks most consumers don't realise they're accepting.
View full analysis →Fairphone doesn't sell your data and has a genuinely ethical mission, but it runs retargeting ads, sends your full IP address to Bloomreach for segmentation, keeps contract data for a minimum of seven years, defaults to anonymisation rather than deletion when you ask for your data to be removed, and forum posts older than 60 days can never be fully deleted.
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