Majority of people send full diagnostic data back to Microsoft
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sverek
M$ : "we just collect whatever data we can and hopefully it will be useful in future. Cool kids do Deep Learning this days."
fantaskarsef
Disgusting tbh.
chronek
Basic level send over 90% of what send Full mode, it still send your computer id, keystrokes, files, mic voice etc, etc... So from privacy concern nothing changed.
Still... Windows 10 is used by peoples who know that and do not care, so it is puzzling that not 100% not care about sending full data, specially when every big update change that level to send full report..
Ryu5uzaku
I stopped caring.
Extraordinary
http://i.imgur.com/NviIXlc.png
JonasBeckman
Only works on enterprise though which is not readily available to consumers, if changed on other editions it just behaves the same as if you set it to basic.
(I also believe it still sends some minimal data back but that could be incorrect.)
Insiders are also forcefully set to full and changing that causes the system to break until switched back.
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JonasBeckman
Yeah, there's a lot of little things in Windows 10 I wish users had better control over, having to dig into the group policy editor and online documentation regarding settings for anything from privacy to behavior for updates and system apps is a bit cumbersome although I think I understand Microsoft wanting to keep things at a minimal for the average user thus hiding the control panel in favor of the lighter settings app and as the article points out a lot of Win10 users probably don't even bother changing the default setting not aware of what exactly it sends over which on full can include partial memory dumps and other data that might not be completely anonymous even if it likely also does help with troubleshooting. 🙂
EDIT: At least for now power users do have the option to go with the less restrictive Enterprise edition (Though Pro is a decent middle ground.) and can change some of these settings but MS is switching things around for every major Win10 build update so who knows how things will look like when RS4 and RS5 (Which were recently revealed.) come out plus the switch to a six month cycle instead of one major update per year.
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Clawedge
www.getblackbird.net
KissSh0t
The majority of Windows 10 users don't know what Windows 10 does while they use it with an internet connection..... which Microsoft of course is taking advantage of.
fantaskarsef
Irenicus
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cryohellinc
Good, as it helps prevent a lot of potential issues with this sort of data gathering, which in the end improves the overall experience for everyone.
Anyone that actually has something to hide, or like me simply wants to disable all of those services, can do that as easily.
I tweaked settings, and used two other softwares to fully delete those services.
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Ricepudding
Just tin hat stuff again, there is no way they would or could record mic, from one person sure? but you're telling me they're recording millions and millions of peoples mics a day? thats hundreds of TB of data a day, they don't have that kind of hardware nor would they have the people to even go through them and find anything out... just more tin hat stuff, microsoft cannot check what everyone is doing in the world its physically impossible
Extraordinary
https://www.wired.com/2017/02/murder-case-tests-alexas-devotion-privacy/
Also iirc facebook was criticised for enabling the mics on phones so they could "Hear what music the user was listening to"
Don't think it was ever suggested it was a constant thing, from what I remember it was first use of apps that used camera / mic that would send a small amount of audio / image back to MS for that apps telemetry, which included a snapshot of the first image of the camera, and probably a second or two of audio to confirm the app was working as intended
It was all exposed and discussed back in 2015 when 10 RTM'd
Amazon's Alexa box thing supposedly listens and records 24/7, there was a murder case where the audio was requested from Amazon that Alexa had heard during the crime, so not impossible
Clawedge
http://alternativeto.net/software/blackbird/
edit: i recommend this cos its open source https://github.com/10se1ucgo/DisableWinTracking/releases/
good point, facebook page says he is working in version 1.0, but here are some alternatives RzrTrek
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