Yesterday my colleague Adrian Kingsley-Hughes shared his thoughts on Microsoft's telemetry process, arguing that Microsoft needs to build a data collection 'off switch' into Windows 10. He ...

There's been a lot of discussion recently about the telemetry data that Windows sends back to Microsoft. There's also been a lot of bad data out there, data that can make it easy to draw some of the ...

Microsoft is previewing an additional way to understand the kind of privacy-related information that gets transmitted in its latest Windows 10 test-build release. Windows 10 build 17083, said to be ...

The company has launched a preview of a new enterprise-focused option that blocks Windows' telemetry from reaching Microsoft's servers. Microsoft last week launched a preview of a new enterprise-only ...

The company’s changes to its diagnostic data collection settings debuted in a recent Insider build, implying that they won’t make it into the impending spring upgrade. Microsoft last week said it ...

Ever since Microsoft launched Windows 10, privacy advocates and concerned users have loudly argued that the firm needed to improve and clarify its privacy policies. To date, the company has mostly ...

Microsoft shot down rumors it was sharing personal user data acquired from Windows 10 telemetry with US security vendor FireEye. The rumors took off after a report from Australian tech news site ARN, ...

With the next major release of the Windows 10 operating system, scheduled for April-May 2018, Microsoft plans to let users see what telemetry data the company is collecting from each of their devices.

Windows 10 has come under fire recently for a who laundry list of problems with the May 2020 Update. Microsoft has been working overtime to address all of the outstanding issues, but new ones ...

Microsoft is perpetually compiling new builds of Windows 10 for internal use and when one of these builds meets the quality standards for an Insider release, then it is pushed out. While it has been a ...

Following the WannaCry ransomware attack last month, the world - and more specifically, Europe - was shaken by yet another similar attack a couple of days ago. The new malware is called "Petya"; it ...

At times, apps gather usage data anonymously from your system. However, if you do not want that to happen, you can turn off Application Telemetry in Windows 11/10, using the Local Group Policy Editor ...