If you're concerned about private documents accidentally leaving your network, you might want to turn the telemetry setting down. Read now Earlier this week I noted a ...

Microsoft Corp. has faced years of criticism over its practice of slurping data from Windows 10 users. Organizations such as the European Union and the Electronic Frontier Foundation have complained, ...

Soon you'll be able to see the diagnostic data Microsoft collects from Windows and what it's doing with it. Share on Facebook (opens in a new window) Share on X (opens in a new window) Share on Reddit ...

As users become more concerned about how their data is being harvested and used by software and sites that they use, companies have started to become more transparent about the information they ...

eWEEK content and product recommendations are editorially independent. We may make money when you click on links to our partners. Learn More. Wondering exactly what kind of data Windows is sending to ...

Microsoft says it doesn’t keep track of your viewing and listening habits, but rather how well those video and audio files play on your device. Still, as the list shows, Microsoft keeps quite a bit of ...

Now, this method has worked for us PC users since time immemorial, but there's another, more reliable way you can use to figure out exactly where the fault lies with your PC. Whenever you encounter a ...

Both commands are simply placeholders in current builds, but the names appear to give away their function. One is a Diagnostic data viewer, apparently intended to offer greater transparency over ...

Microsoft’s and its partners’ engineers use the telemetry data from Windows 10 to diagnose crashes, learn about its users hardware configurations and more. It’s on by default and while Microsoft tells ...

The company could easily give users the ability to control what information is sent to it, but that’s not what it has in mind. In late January, Microsoft embarked on a PR blitz to reassure Windows ...

Soon you'll be able to see the diagnostic data Microsoft collects from Windows and what it's doing with it. Share on Facebook (opens in a new window) Share on X (opens in a new window) Share on Reddit ...