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by bradford 2899 days ago
<disclaimer, MS employee>

I'd like to point out that MS adheres to GDPR regulations and has applied those protections to all users.

https://www.techrepublic.com/article/microsoft-extending-gdp...

2 comments

OK? But it still defaults to 'collect all the things':

> But users now have access to a privacy dashboard that allows you to easily regulate or opt out of any data collection.

How about microsoft does not collect user data by default and lets them opt in?

> > But users now have access to a privacy dashboard that allows you to easily regulate or opt out of any data collection.

> How about microsoft does not collect user data by default and lets them opt in?

A) Not all users are technical enough to understand how telemetry helps developers find faults and better understand crashes/bug reports.

B) "Most" users don't care if data is collected about the software and not the data they put in that software.

C) If you work in tech, I'm sure you know how many people pick options other than default.

I'd like this to be verifiable. For Windows 10 telemetry it is certainly not.