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by KirinDave 3644 days ago
Just one of many links on Google for an appropriate search string. This one is dated and no longer accurate, but the phenomenon still occurs.

http://lifehacker.com/lets-talk-about-apples-privacy-issues-...

They have and they do, on every device. And that's ignoring app specific telemetry, which is explicitly allowed on all app stores.

It is one thing to not want to share that data. It's another entirely to invoke a 7+ year old corporate culture as evidence Microsoft is the sole "bad" actor in the space when every vendor openly discusses their telemetry collection.

How much did we hear about Chrome telemetry at I/O and PWAS? A lot. More to come. And it's necessary to make software products affordable o produce, unfortunately.