Friday, April 07, 2017

Protect yourself!!-----Put down your coffee and admire the sheer amount of data Windows 10 Creators Update will slurp from your PC • The Register

Put down your coffee and admire the sheer amount of data Windows 10 Creators Update will slurp from your PC • The Register:
"Next week Microsoft will begin the slowish rollout of its big update to Windows 10, the Creators Update... (Read it all!)
...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.
...If you're running Windows 10 Enterprise, or one of the Windows Server 2016 editions, you have some finer grain controls over what gets sent back. 
Everyone else will get either Full or Basic, judging from these screenshots of the Creators Update build: http://choice.microsoft.com/en-us/opt-out


Microsoft's default settings ... No privacy at all

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