Windows 10: Microsoft: Our continuing commitment to your privacy with Windows 10

Source: Our continuing commitment to your privacy with Windows 10 - Windows Experience Blog


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Window10 Privacy Setting review popup

Hi,

As part of Microsoft's commitment to our customer's privacy with Windows 10, we wanted to ensure that your privacy settings are ready before any changes will occur. This is to control the information that you are going to share with
Microsoft. Kindly check the links below for more information about choosing privacy settings for your device and Microsoft's mission on our customer's privacy:

• Choose your privacy settings for the Windows 10 Creators Update
  
• Our continuing commitment to your privacy with Windows 10
  
• Privacy at Microsoft

Let us know if you have other queries that we can assist you with.

 

privacy settings for creators update

Hi Bri,

When your device is eligible for the Windows 10 Creators Update, you’ll be informed to make some important choices on your privacy settings so that your system won't block the said update. For more information about this topic, you can refer
to the links below:

Choose your privacy settings for the Windows 10 Creators Update

Our continuing commitment to your privacy with Windows 10

Update us if it addressed your issue.

Thank you.

 

Hello Microsoft *Smile

I want to believe you! I am a bit tired to apply tweaks and to use third party software to try to block whatever I do not know and I have no way to figure out, of what you're collecting from me. Why don't you give me the option to disable Telemetry completely, like you do with Enterprise people, and be fully responsible for my computer? Or why don't you try to remedy the various Event Viewer errors, which appear by hundreds (!) even on the Fresh, absolutely virgin, untouched and un-altered, clean-installed Insider build that I've gotten just today?

On my primary OS, Win 10 Pro, in which I do my best, only that stupid DistributedCOM (10016) error still persists. Whereas on the Insider build, with all your Telemetry ON, they appear by hundreds! And all that, besides the rest of the obvious errors and malfunctions plenty of people face, and me sometimes but rarely.

I want to believe you *Smile
However Linux Mint 18 KDE looks absolutely lovely! *Wink

 

I'm more concerned with what info would be available to the hackers if they were able to hack MS. I don't mind sharing some info with MS. I just want to be able to choose what is and what isn't collected.

 

Joanne.
O yea of little faith.....did you really expect a faultless W10 Insider O/S?....a concept which is in the process of perpetual improvement in both reliability and innovation, with the hoped for added help from us Insiders, proffering improvement suggestions and reporting bugs.....it is most certainly not a released O/S to the general public.
As for telemetry....do you have something to hide, and if so, inadvisable on a beta.

 

Why should anyone have any faith in MS' claims about respecting user privacy?
These are "the guys" who deliberately copied malware installers (making the close button an install button).

OTOH, Beta software shouldn't be used for any important/private activities.

 

There is no mention of backdoors to security agencies built into MS software with or without the agreement of Microsoft. The only safe PC has no internet connection, preferably inside a Faraday Cage!

 

How can anyone trust this... If Microsoft were so concerned about a user's privacy, they simply shouldn't collect any data, other than a login and password. the part about being able to turn off relevant ads, they say ".. it will not cut down the amount of ads, they just might not be relevant to you.. ", is that sick or what?

Paying for an OS to spy on you, that is just crazy talk..

 

For the people saying this is an insider build, the features will ideally roll out to production. That's the whole point of being a beta tester. I do understand the privacy concerns, which is why I personally run Windows 10 Pro and turn the features off via local group policy. The only part that I despise is the advertising ID. Yes, Windows 10 was free early on, but a majority of people pay for either via OEM fees or a retail upgrade. To push advertising in an operating system for which there is a fee is at least arrogant. If I use a free system like android, or a free website like Facebook, I understand I am opening myself up to advertisers. However, if I am paying for something whether it is called a license fee or something else, I don't expect advertisers to be pushing their products in my face based on my personal data that I did not want them to have. Yes, you can turn off the advertiser ID, but then the alternative is to still get ads push to you on occasion. The actual solution is no ads at all.

 

The whole question is a simple one

You are going to see advertising as you use the net - No way you can stop that unless you totally change the web to a subscription model where you pay to browse every single site you visit - Ad revenue pays for the internet

What you can do is either select to see advertising for a random set of products, the majority of which are always going to be of no interest, or see them for a set of products that specifically relate to what you have shown interest in by searching for.

The targeted advertising is a far better option for me

Anyone who disables the targeted advertising is actually asking for more unwanted ads not less

 

But not when it is your Operating System that is doing it. If I browse the web, I expect ads, or going to a particular site, I get that. Just like this forum, they have ads, no problem. But I am not paying for it and I choose to participate. Windows 10 is an operating system, it should not be used as an advertising tool, especially when one pays for it. If it were entirely free, that would be another story.

If Microsoft wants to include advertising they should make Windows 10 free, OR, if you buy it, it should be totally advertising neutral, collect no data and distribute none. IMO

 

I have never seen an ad in Windows except inside a browser.
I of course have always run pro or enterprise. The odd app that shows up in home versions is controlled by the show suggestions switch and is not affected by the targeted ads settings

 

Could someone please explain me what and where are these ads Windows 10 is supposedly showing? I saw some software suggestions after a clean install in Start and Cortana, but after turning Occasionally show suggestions in Start off in Settings, and telling Cortana what kind of reminders I want to see, I've seen no ads, suggestions, nothing since that.




Also, could someone please tell me how is my privacy invaded if and when I let Windows 10, Cortana and various websites to collect info about sites I visit? As you know I am not very clever, I have thought this makes my use of Windows 10 as smooth and pleasant as it is, more personalised because Windows (and especially Cortana) already knows my likes and dislikes. Apparently this has now made me target for investigation by several national and multinational intelligence agencies and opened my system to all kind of hackers. My banking info is also, so I have heard, now on the market for anyone to buy. My stupidity has no limits!

Please help me to see the light and answer these questions!

 

Only time I have seen adds is when Cortana picks up my preferences, these appear for example when I read a newspaper on line in tiny side columns, its almost as if the aforesaid paper was either reading my mind or it being just an incredible coincidence.

They are not intrusive and only seek to remind me of a earlier enquiry made, and often still appear even after having purchased the product. Personally I appreciate the benefits Cortana offer.

Adblock Plus gets rid of most other adds.