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by Sylos 2770 days ago
They are completely intransparent about what they collect and legal systems around the world also fail catastrophically at regulating this in any way.

What if they send the data contained in the text files that I open with that text editor? There's partially passwords and such in the files that I edit.

If I knew exactly that all they send is the average size of the files I edit or similar data, I would actually have no problem at all. But Microsoft has proven a lot of times already that what they consider perfectly acceptable telemetry is not in the slightest the same as what I consider acceptable. So, even with something as innocuous as text editor telemetry, I can't trust them to not fuck up and for some reason collect data that I consider sensitive anyways.