Windows 10 Sends Data Home 5,500 Times a Day
Posted by: Timothy Weaver on 02/10/2016 05:36 AM
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There is the belief that disabling all privacy compromising and telemetry features on Windows 10 will stop Microsoft to track your activities.
The truth is that even after all telemetry features are disabled, Windows 10 is still sending data back to Microsoft.
An analysis conducted by a Voat user, CheesusCrust, found that even after disabling every single tracking and telemetry features in the operating system, he found that the idle Windows 10 box had tried over 5,500 connections to 93 different IP addresses, out of which almost 4,000 were made to 51 different IP addresses belonging to Microsoft.
Terry Myerson, head of the Windows team, explained that while Windows 10 does send some of your data to the company, everything is encrypted and doesn't include any of your personal details.
Here is what Microsoft says about what it data mines:
"We collect a limited amount of information to help us provide a secure and reliable experience. This includes data like an anonymous device ID, device type, and application crash data which Microsoft and our developer partners use to continuously improve application reliability. This doesn't include any of your content or files, and we take several steps to avoid collecting any information that directly identifies you, such as your name, email address or account ID."
But, thousands of connection attempts in the period of 8 hours just to check for updates or adjust the time, sounds more complicated than that.
Source:The Hacker News
The truth is that even after all telemetry features are disabled, Windows 10 is still sending data back to Microsoft.An analysis conducted by a Voat user, CheesusCrust, found that even after disabling every single tracking and telemetry features in the operating system, he found that the idle Windows 10 box had tried over 5,500 connections to 93 different IP addresses, out of which almost 4,000 were made to 51 different IP addresses belonging to Microsoft.
Terry Myerson, head of the Windows team, explained that while Windows 10 does send some of your data to the company, everything is encrypted and doesn't include any of your personal details.
Here is what Microsoft says about what it data mines:
"We collect a limited amount of information to help us provide a secure and reliable experience. This includes data like an anonymous device ID, device type, and application crash data which Microsoft and our developer partners use to continuously improve application reliability. This doesn't include any of your content or files, and we take several steps to avoid collecting any information that directly identifies you, such as your name, email address or account ID."
But, thousands of connection attempts in the period of 8 hours just to check for updates or adjust the time, sounds more complicated than that.
Source:The Hacker News
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