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, ...

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 ...

“Microsoft Monday" is a weekly column that focuses on all things Microsoft. This week, Microsoft Monday includes details about the PlayFab acquisition, a patch for Intel’s Spectre firmware update, a ...

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 ...

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 ...

Regardless of how you may feel about the recent reports of Facebook posts being data-mined, the incident shined a light on something that has been a personal pet peeve for years: ambiguous data ...

A new app in the latest Windows 10 test build gives users some insight into the kind of privacy-related information that Microsoft collects from their devices. Windows 10 build 17083, which was ...

With Windows Insider build 17083, Microsoft responded to criticism about transparency by adding a 'Diagnostic Data Viewer' app to the OS for beta users to try out. Microsoft last week gave Windows 10 ...

Although Microsoft collects diagnostic data from your computer, it is possible to delete them if you want to. If you do not wish to allow other users to delete diagnostic data in Windows 11/10, you ...

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 ...