While you are right that Microsoft loosened their stance with privacy, let's not conflate data collection purposes: 1. telemetry, for diagnostics and health mo

While you are right that Microsoft loosened their stance with privacy, let's not conflate data collection purposes: 1. telemetry, for diagnostics and health monitoring 2. usage analysis, for program improvement and personalization 3. content analysis, for advertising and marketing purposes Windows requires kind 1 and encourages kind 2*. Type 3 does not really apply, though, as I don't see Windows sniffing what I write in my text files so that I'm shown relevant ads later. It's all explained here: https://privacy.microsoft.com/en-us/data-collection-windows https://privacy.microsoft.com/en-us/data-collection-windows * Also note that the Customer Experience Improvement Program has been with us since Windows 7. Same thing, just not perceived as badly as Windows 10.