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Microsoft isn't selling your PC usage data to advertisers. If you doubt me, go ahead and show me how you can buy this data. I'll gladly give you my next month's salary if you can.

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These kinds of deals are enterprise-level, in meeting rooms, with sales people. They don't happen on the public web. So your challenge isn't plausible and you take no risk here

This question : "how can I buy data from X" should be asked more often on HN, for factual purposes. I would like the same question asked about Google.

Or should this question be asked as "what type of warrant needs served for law enforcement to get this data from Microsoft about you"

> isn't selling your PC usage data

Correct. It is selling use of PC usage data.

In other words the stuff is compiled together and offered to specific businesses with specific needs, if and when they come up with it. It won't be publicly available at first. I will be customized to each industry. Once they figure out how to scale it, everyone will have access to streamlined telemetry.

it does not matter if they sell it or not I don't want it collected. It could later be subpoenaed or stolen. They should just not collect it in the first place

Microsoft comes with third party games installed by default. I am certain that those are paid for, I am certain if you open that software it phones home to let them know you did, and I'm certain that information gets sent to the game developer.

I'll take PayPal

This implies it's OK for Microsoft to have the data in the first place. I don't trust them any more than Google.

Telemetry.

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