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posted by Fnord666 on Saturday April 08 2017, @03:48AM   Printer-friendly
from the thanks-Microsoft dept.

Next week Microsoft will begin the slowish rollout of its big update to Windows 10, the Creators Update.

Right now, it's doing a little damage control, and preempting complaints about privacy, by listing the types of information its operating system will automatically and silently leak from PCs, slabs, and laptops back to Redmond.

When Windows 10 came out, Reg readers were alarmed by the volume of information the software was collecting and sending back to base. Ever since then, Microsoft has been fighting a PR battle to reassure people that such data slurping isn't all bad – it's "just" telemetry and diagnostics and potentially your files.

Now Redmond's had a little rethink for the Creators Update, and decided to come clean on exactly what the software will phone home – even insisting the closed-source operating system will scoop up less surveillance this time.

What makes you think it's your data?


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  • (Score: 2) by rufty on Saturday April 08 2017, @03:33PM

    by rufty (381) on Saturday April 08 2017, @03:33PM (#490856)

    I generally don't use Windows. I've got a Mac with WinXP, Win7, Win8 and Win10 VMs for testing, and a dual-boot Debian/Win10 box for when I need to run Windows software that needs real hardware, generally firmware flashers. So, is there that much I could be leaking from this level of usage?

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