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> In regards to trust, you can actually view the diagnostic data since the insider build half a month ago using windows diagnostic data viewer.

Once again a matter of trust (or not wanting ANY data to be sent, a radio silent OS aside from updates and features that actually require internet access and you opt-in on using them). Would be trivial to lie about the data in the UI. I don't know if it's possible to intercept the data for analysis, so people can verify that it matches the UI.

> Regarding businesses: I do think you can disable all of that using group policy in Windows Enterprise

Nope, even the Security setting still collects data.

https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/itpro/windows/manage/con...

Just to the first one. I do think that people would already notice improper data being sent to MS after Windows 10 is out for 2 years (or maybe 3 already?). It would be waaaay to risky for them to lie about something like that and actually put personally identifiable info there.

Like I said you can de-anonymize data. I wouldn't know since I'm not a security researcher and haven't tried to analyze Windows traffic with external hardware. It's like asking if nobody would have find out about Spectre in a decade since it's so obvious.

Since everybody else does it now MS, from a competitive standpoint, also has to be a creep with your data. But they own the OS and I don't want that bullshit there.

You can go with the "it was a bug" narrative about all the privacy settings getting reset, saying that the tool showing what they collect is enough, that not being able to pay to stop the data collection is ok (if they "really" have to collect data to be competitive), well for me it's shady business and I don't want my OS doing that. Just tired of this subject to be honest, here's more info if you want to dig deeper https://google.com/#q=Windows+Restricted+Traffic+Limited+Fun...

All that other creeps are stating that in their privacy agreement openly though.

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