[hedora]

It looks like you can disable it, but “Full” telemetry (in Microsoft’s words) includes:

> Full: All data necessary to identify and help to fix problems, plus data from the Security, Basic, and Enhanced levels.

In the Windows 8 days, they claimed that engineers couldn’t silently pull individual files from machines without managerial approval. I can’t find the source. It was some old news article with an interview with a Microsoft manager.

Anyway, “All data necessary to identify and help to fix problems” pretty clearly implies they can pull whatever they want as they debug. I don’t see how they could implement that without exposing customers to warrant requests.

[Hawxy]

FYI what they're referring to is this: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-gb/windows/privacy/windows-dia...

This page outlines everything additional they recieve on the Full setting.

> In the Windows 8 days, they claimed that engineers couldn’t silently pull individual files from machines without managerial approval. I can’t find the source. It was some old news article with an interview with a Microsoft manager.

I recall reading something similar, but for Windows 10. AFAIK it said that engineers diagnosing a difficult problem can select a group of machines to receive raw telemetry from, after getting permission from managers + microsoft's privacy team. I have a feeling it was for insider builds only though.