Like any other organization, Microsoft collects Windows diagnostic data to solve problems and to keep Windows up to date. It also helps the company to provide more relevant tips and recommendations to ...

In Windows 11, you can opt out of sending some (but not all) diagnostic data to Microsoft. The OS offers several privacy settings to limit diagnostics and telemetry collection, but you need to know ...

Not being able to turn off Send optional diagnostic data settings undermines our privacy and control and can be really frustrating. This issue often occurs when system policies, background services, ...

Why it matters: Thanks to the constant data collection practices that big tech companies employ these days, protecting your digital privacy is more complicated than ever. Though the biggest offenders ...

Data privacy has become a buzzword in recent years as more people grow increasingly concerned about where their data is being used and how they can keep their activities more private. Although it's ...

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 ...

Microsoft has announced that it's building on the commitment shared in April of last year by updating the privacy settings for Xbox users. As it promised at the time, the updates aim to give users ...

Microsoft has rolled out a new Windows 10 Insider build to testers in the Fast ring, bringing a relatively large set of feature updates covering diagnostic data collection settings, a new Windows ...

These are the top four privacy settings to check in your Windows device to make sure Microsoft doesn't collect any data you don't want it to. In Part 1 of this series ...

If there's one message to take away from the latest batch of changes to diagnostic data collection rolling out in Windows 10 preview editions, it's this: Don't call it telemetry. The most visible ...

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