> Instead of trusting me - think of the corporate incentive to do well here. Consider how much it would cost a company like Microsoft if employees were exposed

> Instead of trusting me - think of the corporate incentive to do well here. Consider how much it would cost a company like Microsoft if employees were exposed to confidential customer data (our customers can work with medical data, so a fairly expensive legal nightmare) vs. what the company gains (engineers have a slightly easier time debugging). At Microsoft scale I guess it simply makes sense to be super strict about this. Your employer has been caught twice providing NSA backdoors in its operating system and its "home" edition makes it impossible to disable a stunning and completely unnecessary level of telemetry data.