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Here's what Win10 tracks

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Jesus H Christ:  What a shedload of data.  Have been toying with
putting Win10 on a machine.  Not anymore.

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/04/06/microsoft_windows_10_creators_update/

Put down your coffee and admire the sheer amount of data Windows 10
Creators Update will slurp from your PC Official list of phoned-home
info revealed by Microsoft

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In Full mode, shedloads more is sent over. It includes everything at
the Basic level plus records of events generated by the operating
system, and your "inking and typing data." Engineers, with permission
from Microsoft’s privacy governance team, can obtain users' documents
that trigger crashes in applications, so they can work out what's going
wrong. The techies can also run diagnostic tools remotely on the
computers, again with permission from their overseers. And next

In the Creators Update, aka Windows 10 version 1703, all this
information will be collected in Basic mode. A lot of it is to help
Microsofties pinpoint the cause of crashes and potential new malware
infections, although it includes things like logs of you giving
applications administrator privileges via the UAC, battery life
readings, firmware version details, details of your hardware down to
the color and serial number of the machine, which cell network you're
using, and so on.

Then there's the information collected in Full mode, which includes
everything in Basic plus your user settings and preferences, your
browser choice, lists of your peripherals, the apps you use to edit and
view images and videos, how long you use the mouse and keyboard, all
the applications you've ever installed, URLs to videos you've watched
that triggered an error, URLs to music that triggered an error, time
spent reading ebooks, text typed in a Microsoft web browser's address
and search bar, URLs visited, visited webpage titles, the words you've
spoken to Cortana or had translated to text by the system, your ink
strokes, and more.

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RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com>

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Here's what Win10 tracks RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2017-04-06 14:54 -0400
  Re: Here's what Win10 tracks Rich <rich@example.invalid> - 2017-04-06 21:39 +0000
    Re: Here's what Win10 tracks Whiskers <catwheezel@operamail.com> - 2017-04-07 18:12 +0100
      Re: Here's what Win10 tracks mm0fmf <none@invalid.com> - 2017-04-07 19:13 +0100
        Re: Here's what Win10 tracks Robert <monstoor@spammedia.com> - 2017-04-08 00:11 +0100
        Re: Here's what Win10 tracks Bob Eager <news0006@eager.cx> - 2017-04-08 10:52 +0000
        Re: Here's what Win10 tracks RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2017-04-18 17:44 -0400
        Re: Here's what Win10 tracks eph <universitymail@umn.edu> - 2017-05-12 10:01 -0500

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