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 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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

In Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 17704 Microsoft released an updated Diagnostic Data Viewer to Insiders that now includes the ability to see Problem Reports that have been or will be transmitted to ...

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 ...

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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 ...

The company could easily give users the ability to control what information is sent to it, but that’s not what it has in mind. In late January, Microsoft embarked on a PR blitz to reassure Windows ...

Transparency and privacy are very important issues to the technologically-inclined these days. When a company makes a move that's seen as harming users' privacy, the pushback from activists is swift ...

Here are the steps to review, manage, and delete diagnostic data that Microsoft collected about your device with new settings included with the Windows 10 April 2018 Update. When you purchase through ...

Soon you'll be able to see the diagnostic data Microsoft collects from Windows and what it's doing with it. Share on Facebook (opens in a new window) Share on X (opens in a new window) Share on Reddit ...