Microsoft: 71% of Windows 10 Creators Update PCs Use Full Telemetry Settings

[LASER_oneXM]

Marisa Rogers, privacy officers for Microsoft's Windows and Devices Group, says that 71% of the users who updated to the Windows 10 Creators Update in the past months have chosen to enable the "Full" diagnostics and telemetry collection settings during the upgrade process.

Her remark refers to the screen that appears before Windows 10 upgrades to the Creators Update, as pictured above.

Microsoft added the screen to the Windows 10 Creators Update upgrade process as part of a larger set of privacy protection enhancements it implemented at the behest of WP29 (Article 29 Data Protection Working Party), an EU-affiliated consumer privacy protection group.

The EU commission had warned Microsoft last year about its intrusive data collection practices.

 

[frogboy]

Not here i diabled as much as I could. But your average home and business users do not know of such things. I cannot even talk my wife into disabling some telemetry for a bit of privacy.

 

[DJ Panda]

My computers are garbadge eneough, it seems whenever I disable this stuff it starts acting up.

 

[Fritz]

People are complacent as it is and as long as they're allowed to call it "diagnostics" that number is to be expected.

I wouldn't even hate on them if they didn't hide everything behind their hideous corporate speak. Tell people "Yes, we're gonna grab everything we can get our hands on and will know you better than your mother. Allow? Yes/No" and let's see which button they'll hit being aware of it. Until that happens and the settings are opt-out instead of opt-in it's all just a show.

 

[Entreri]

Even to get rid of the corporate spying on consumers it's tough, Win10 by default setting is "Full".

General public, express settings and that is it. They have no idea what M$ is collecting and once they get hacked, simply delicious.

6% of American's (18-24) can't locate America on a map...North Korea probably less than 1% can locate it. That is the general public.

Having to edit registry, hosts, firewall settings, possibly 0.01% do this. Forget about the spying intelligence agencies that have run amok does on their citizens...although trolling them can be fun I suppose.

 

[XhenEd]

I enabled the Full. I'm fully aware, and it's my personal decision.

 

[HarborFront]

Use O&O Shut Up 10 or similar software to minimize telemetry data from sending back to MS.

 

[frogboy]

Use O&O Shut Up 10 or similar software to minimize telemetry data from sending back to MS.

That is what I use. Thankyou O&O for a great software.

 

[ElectricSheep]

That is what I use. Thankyou O&O for a great software.

O&O - Brlliant! So much easier to turn off all the nosiness with that
Love the fact it cuts out all the boring digging around trying to find the switches

 

[DeepWeb]

Very easy when it literally reverts telemetry settings with every damn update or when you run the troubleshooter and it reverts telemetry. I have to constantly reapply, even when my Group policy settings have it disabled.

 

[iAwake]

That is what I use. Thankyou O&O for a great software.

I believe it is the same as Ashampoo Win10 Antispy.

 

[TairikuOkami]

Comparison of Windows 10 Privacy tools - gHacks Tech News (Only the latest addition, WPD, seems to be updated at the moment, the rest is left in the dust)

MS has actually did a great job, considering, it has allowed users to change almost all settings included within those anti-telemetry apps. They are obsolete now.

 

[Marko :)]

If default setting is "Full", I'm not surprised because a lot of people just click next, next, next during installation and don't read anything. I turned off everything I can and I use O&O ShutUp10 as well.

 

[legendcampos]

It's worse you to have an Facebook profile than Microsoft use your data, privacy is a complex thing.

 

[Winter Soldier]

I am not part of those 71% of users.
I also use O&O Shutup that does a good job, and it is frequently updated.
This is my personal choice, I've paid for a Windows license when I bought my PC and I do not see any reason why they earn money using my data, because in the end this is... even if they stubbornly call this thing like "statistical purpose".

 

[Winter Soldier]

If default setting is "Full", I'm not surprised because a lot of people just click next, next, next during installation

You got the point Marko

 

[askmark]

Telemetry. What a load of fuss over nothing. Yawn.

 

[Marko :)]

I am not part of those 71% of users.
I also use O&O Shutup that does a good job, and it is frequently updated.
This is my personal choice, I've paid for a Windows license when I bought my PC and I do not see any reason why they earn money using my data, because in the end this is... even if they stubbornly call this thing like "statistical purpose".

The real question is, if telemetry is used for resolving bugs, why almost every Windows Update makes PCs unstable?

Someone will say "you can't make software without bugs" and I agree with that but when you look back to Windows 7/8.1, they didn't have that much bugs and affairs. I remember only few updates that made PCs unstable, not every other.

I think that telemetry is here only to make money off it, not to make Windows better. That's why I had disabled it.

 

[TairikuOkami]

Telemetry. What a load of fuss over nothing. Yawn.

Well some people care about privacy and some do not. MS is just trying to keep up with Google.

Google Will Track Your Offline Credit Card Payments to Make Advertisers Happy

 

[askmark]

Well some people care about privacy and some do not. MS is just trying to keep up with Google.

Google Will Track Your Offline Credit Card Payments to Make Advertisers Happy

What private info is Microsoft collectiing about me that should concern me?