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If I understand the article correctly, they are publishing all they are collecting by default. They are not publishing exactly what they are collecting for the
by warp 10y ago
If I understand the article correctly, they are publishing all they are collecting by default.
They are not publishing exactly what they are collecting for the "Full" telemetry setting, which is opt-in. I'm guessing they don't want to commit to that because they want to be free to add and remove metrics they're interested in.
- hounsell 10y agoThe default telemetry level is "Enhanced" though, so it's not what they're collecting by default. It's just evasive on Microsoft's part.
- UnoriginalGuy 10y agoEnhanced is being removed. Only full and basic will exist. This is in the linked article.
- hounsell 10y agoYeh, I'm sorry, I missed that. My point is perhaps only even stronger though, considering the new default is "Full". To their minimal credit, I suppose, you can no longer avoid the toggle when installing or upgrading to the Creators Update, which you could do in previous Windows with telemetry. I doubt that many will still bother even reading the labels of the toggles though, let alone consider whether they'd be better served with an option other than the default.
- hedora 10y agoNote the Orwellian use of the word "telemetry." They are using it to mean "data collected by the telemetry team" at Microsoft. This is not a list of "telemetry data collected by Windows 10". I am beginning to suspect that they do not have adequate internal safeguards to control the collection of personally identifiable information across the entire company (including office, bing, skype, linkedin, etc, etc). That would mean they are actually incapable of enumerating all the information a clean Windows 10 install and office 365 will phone home. It would also explain discrepancies between todays's list and third party audits of Windows 10.
- WorldMaker 10y agoI don't think that is true: the list includes telemetry from the Windows Store, which while a bundled part of Windows 10 I would be hugely surprised if its telemetry (which includes marketing concerns) is anywhere a part of the same "telemetry team" as say crash/error reporting telemetry. The impression I get is that this information took so long to produce because they did have to sit down with all of the various teams involved. They also don't seem to be attempting any Orwellian use of the word "telemetry", though it is technically explicit. They start the document by establishing the definition, if you care to question it more directly: https://technet.microsoft.com/itpro/windows/configure/configure-windows-telemetry-in-your-organization#what-is-windows-telemetry https://technet.microsoft.com/itpro/windows/configure/config...