Windows 10 spies on you and lies about it.

[Por_sha911]

Windows 10 will keep spying on you no matter how hard you try to stop it | Fox News

In a Voat thread last week, a user by the name of CheesusCrust published his findings after running a network traffic analysis relating to the telemetry and surveillance features of Windows 10. The results were troubling, to say the least.

While setting up a fresh copy of Windows 10 Enterprise Edition on VirtualBox, the user went through and disabled all three pages of tracking options, one by one. He then left the computer running for eight hours overnight, and returned to find that Windows 10 had attempted to contact 51 Microsoft IP addresses 5,508 times.

After 30 hours, over 112 IP addresses had been contacted.

The user attempted the same experiment once again with a fresh install of Windows 10 as well as a third party tool called DisableWinTracking. He discovered that the name of the tool is slightly misleading, as Windows 10 had contacted 30 IP addresses 2,758 times in the same 30 hour time frame.

[stealthn]

I saw that, I went and read MS' privacy statement again and it's crap. They pull off a Google by saying go here to read this and go here to do this and after half an hour you just give up.

I sent an email to their privacy commissioner to see what their comments were about it.

The other one I'm surprised they get away with is storing your health information from app/fitbit stuff.

[HardDrive]

Silly article. Phoning home to MSFT does not mean the OS is spying on you. Any supported OS is going to periodically check of updates. And sending MSFT data about performance has no bearing on one's privacy.

[legion]

Originally Posted by stealthn

I saw that, I went and read MS' privacy statement again and it's crap. They pull off a Google by saying go here to read this and go here to do this and after half an hour you just give up.

I sent an email to their privacy commissioner to see what their comments were about it.

The other one I'm surprised they get away with is storing your health information from app/fitbit stuff.

As a privacy professional, this pisses me off. Then again, I trust outfits like Google and MSFT....not at all.

I just blocked IP addresses and ports Win10 tries to use for telemetry.

[unclebilly]

How do you turn off the spying with Google Chrome? Is it time to switch to Firefox?

[Por_sha911]

Originally Posted by HardDrive

Any supported OS is going to periodically check of updates.

Originally Posted by Por_sha911

He then left the computer running for eight hours overnight, and returned to find that Windows 10 had attempted to contact 51 Microsoft IP addresses 5,508 times.

"periodically check for updates" LOL