> I don't see why they don't just add the option to disable that with appropriate labeling, though, if nothing else to satisfy the more vocal, privacy-concerned

> I don't see why they don't just add the option to disable that with appropriate labeling, though, if nothing else to satisfy the more vocal, privacy-concerned folks. Your last point basically contradicts the first one, IMHO, because you have an OS that itself becomes a giant spyware. You don't know what MS is doing with all that data. The could very well resell them to 3rd parties, give it to states, ... And the "you can't turn that off" is obviously by design. You can't turn off a spyware.