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> and has been collecting troves of personal data through Windows 10 How much PII is really collected via W10 telemetry? Or is the amount of times you click th
by judge2020 5y ago
> and has been collecting troves of personal data through Windows 10
How much PII is really collected via W10 telemetry? Or is the amount of times you click the start menu, accidentally search for something via Bing, then close that window now considered personal information?
- reaperducer 5y agoIt doesn't matter if it's PII or not. You ask before collecting. That's basic decency. Not your computer. Not your data.
- userbinator 5y agoNot your computer. Not your data. Unfortunately, Microsoft thinks otherwise. See the huge discussion here for example: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27629350 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27629350 (tl;dr: thanks to Secure Boot, Microsoft had to give permission for Linux to boot.) Also, don't forget the whole "Windows as a service" crap.
- varispeed 5y agoYour behaviour is personal to you and it is possible to identify a person based on that data.
- shostack 5y agoFor me it's a question if whether it is ever linked or able to be linked to specific app usage or details of that usage (thing Edge browsing behavior). With industry privacy changes, having a persistent login at the OS level let's you do an end run around privacy protections in a browser, or incognito mode type stuff potentially.