The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) is lambasting Microsoft over Windows 10’s telemetry technology, urging it to “come clean” with customers. In a piece posted last week to the EFF’s blog, Amul ...

Microsoft today revealed more about what information Windows 10 collects from users, the latest attempt to quell long-simmering resistance to the operating system’s data gathering and reporting ...

It's no big secret that Windows tends to snoop around on users, but the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) warns that Windows 10 collects an "unprecedented amount" of data. Windows 10 has been in ...

For users who value their privacy, having their data collected is next to stolen. On Windows 11, there are multiple ways to opt out of it. This article will show you how. Windows from Unsplash ...

Windows 11 hides a surprisingly powerful privacy switch in a place most people never think to look, and leaving it at the default can quietly expose more about your habits than you realize. I’ve spent ...

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When Microsoft launched Windows 10, one of the major flashpoints of disagreement between the company and its users were Microsoft's Windows 10 data collection practices. The French data privacy ...

The European Union’s data-protection watchdog says it still has concerns about the information Microsoft is collecting from users of its Windows 10 operating system. The EU regulator sent Microsoft a ...

There are all kinds of new features in the Windows 10 Creators Update rolling out on April 11, but one change really sticks out: greater transparency about the data that Microsoft collects from your ...