All the data Windows 10 collects about you

Thanks for the sneak preview. Where can I see the rest of list?
 
LinuxMan said:
Got nothing to hide here
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It's not about "got nothing to hide" but your right to disclose certain information.

Yes, one has the option of not using windows 10, but what should have been done was disclose all these things upfront (I don't recall seeing anything announced by MS) and let people make an informed decision.

I wonder how much bandwidth this all all uses.
 
This is why I like Apple more and more. I used to think they are greedy but I've come to realise they just have a more traditional business model:

You give us money we give you product. Finish and klaar. No selling of your data or pushing adds for more revenue.

Google on the other hands gives you services for free in return for your data. Which is fine too - your choice after all.

MS somehow wants both ??
 
After initially only trying Win10 for a month or so way back in its beta stage, I'll be building a new PC next week and I'm installing Win10 Pro on it. I've been on Win7 all this time but can't move my Win7 licence to the new machine.
 
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/04/06/microsoft_windows_10_creators_update/

Engineers, with permission from Microsoft’s privacy governance team, can obtain users' documents that trigger crashes in applications, so they can work out what's going wrong.
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Wait, what???!! And this is is the CURRENT version?

So, essentially, MS has access to my private documents?

And in the update this will exist at the basic logging level and can't be turned off?? With the added features in default full mode:

Then there's the information collected in Full mode, which includes everything in Basic plus your user settings and preferences, your browser choice, lists of your peripherals, the apps you use to edit and view images and videos, how long you use the mouse and keyboard, all the applications you've ever installed, URLs to videos you've watched that triggered an error, URLs to music that triggered an error, time spent reading ebooks, text typed in a Microsoft web browser's address and search bar, URLs visited, visited webpage titles, the words you've spoken to Cortana or had translated to text by the system, your ink strokes, and more.
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So much for privacy. Basically, there isn't any in Win10. Especially for the majority who won't change default settings and are unaware. Sure, this is all aimed at "improving the experience", and probably this is the honest intention of most of the engineers at MS, but what is clear is the amount and scope of access to what most users would never have considered accessible outside of their PCs.
 
Sooooooooooooooooo much info. Wondering why your net is slow (all those win 10 PCs are busy uploading data to M$)
 
lestoran said:
This is why I like Apple more and more. I used to think they are greedy but I've come to realise they just have a more traditional business model:

You give us money we give you product. Finish and klaar. No selling of your data or pushing adds for more revenue.
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:crylaugh:

iSheep
 
lestoran said:
This is why I like Apple more and more. I used to think they are greedy but I've come to realise they just have a more traditional business model:

You give us money we give you product. Finish and klaar. No selling of your data or pushing adds for more revenue.

Google on the other hands gives you services for free in return for your data. Which is fine too - your choice after all.

MS somehow wants both ??
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Yeah, guess that is why Apple coined the term "Differential privacy" because they collecting your data, by not collecting YOUR data.
 
kianm said:
Sooooooooooooooooo much info. Wondering why your net is slow (all those win 10 PCs are busy uploading data to M$)
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It is slow not because of collecting data, sending home, but because of distributed number crunching engine which was used already for cracking sha1 certificate for Microsoft's partners.
 
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