FYI what they're referring to is this: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-gb/windows/privacy/windows-diagnostic-data#data-description-for-product-and-service-perform

FYI what they're referring to is this: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-gb/windows/privacy/windows-diagnostic-data#data-description-for-product-and-service-performance-data-typedata-description-for-product-and-service-performance-data-type https://docs.microsoft.com/en-gb/windows/privacy/windows-dia... This page outlines everything additional they recieve on the Full setting. > In the Windows 8 days, they claimed that engineers couldn’t silently pull individual files from machines without managerial approval. I can’t find the source. It was some old news article with an interview with a Microsoft manager. I recall reading something similar, but for Windows 10. AFAIK it said that engineers diagnosing a difficult problem can select a group of machines to receive raw telemetry from, after getting permission from managers + microsoft's privacy team. I have a feeling it was for insider builds only though.